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justify English

Meaning justify meaning

What does justify mean?
Definitions in simple English

justify Verb

— If you justify something that people think is bad, you explain why it was good or why it had to happen that way. One problem in music education is always having to justify our existence to other teachers. 78% of people do not think that US military action in Iraq was justified. Killings are always wrong, and that is why attempts to justify them are always made. — If the ends justify the means, the way of doing something is bad, but the result is worth it. He feels that he can lie because the end justifies the means. — If you justify text, you make the left side of each line of writing line up and the same with the right side.

justify

— verb (= warrant) show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns The end justifies the means — verb (= vindicate) show to be right by providing justification or proof vindicate a claim — verb (= excuse, rationalize, rationalise) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior he rationalized his lack of success — verb adjust the spaces between words justify the margins — verb (= absolve) let off the hook I absolve you from this responsibility

Synonyms justify synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as justify?

justify English » English

excuse vindicate warrant prove explain validate substantiate confirm verify testify rationalize pardon legitimize ground elucidate clarify apologise rationalise motivate legitimatize legitimate justification interpret illustrate free forgive explain away defend base authorize authenticate apologize account for absolve verification validation understand true up true strike strickle strengthen square up spell out set in order remit qualify put in order protect permit

Topics justify topics

What do people use justify to talk about?
Social behavior Law Trial

Vindicate
Social behavior Religion Practice religion

Salvation

Conjugation justify conjugation

How do you conjugate justify?

justify · verb

Examples justify examples

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Simple sentences

How can you justify your behavior?
Can you justify your action?
He is trying to justify his act.
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom the harder it is to get rid of it.
Can one justify the use of violence?
I needed to justify why I was earning such a large salary.
The end doesn't justify the means.
I don't need to justify my actions to you.
Can you justify the use of violence?
The accused tried to justify his actions.
Does the end justify the means?
The end does not necessarily justify the means.
It's hard to justify.
Can you justify your claim?
How can you justify your claim?
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
If you do like this, you won't justify your friends' trust.

Movie subtitles

Enough to justify someone kidnapping your child to keep your mouth shut.
To justify your conduct and his?
Don't try to justify your behaviour by insinuating things about me.
I haven't any behaviour to justify.
Your mere assertion that I give him overlarge sums of spending money. in no way seems to justify the severe treatment. to which he's obviously been subjected.
I am preparing a more detailed report for your consideration. It is my belief that we already have sufficient evidence against Zachetti and Mrs. Dietrichson to justify police action.
This was to justify the continued liberty of Bill Dietrich.
He found reasons to justify his actions.
Nastasia is beautiful enough to justify your choice.
However, I'd sincerely like to justify his faith.
Why are you trying to justify yourself to me?
I've wanted to justify your confidence in me.
To justify this?
On board the flagship I told him the log didn't justify such action. - - And that we'd be charged with mutiny.
Then I'll justify myself to you and you shall judge.
But enough to justify somebody kidnapping your child to keep your mouth shut.
I don't try to justify his crime, his mutiny but I condemn the tyranny that drove him to it.
But how would you justify it if it were only a personal matter?
Don't try to justify your behavior by insinuating things about me.
I haven't any behavior to justify.
Your Honor, I'm telling you as clearly as possible that sufficient glandular and nervous imbalance may have occurred to justify an hypothesis of pseudo-schizophrenic tendencies.
To do good for people. What?.and justify the faith of your constituents.
You forget, Don Alvarez, the Queen needs justify nothing.
The Captain wishes to justify what, in plain words. is a desire for plunder with no respect for the interests of Spain.
If I could only justify the difference.
It is my belief that we already have sufficient evidence against Zachetti. and Mrs. Dietrichson to justify police action.
Um, but if the rest of one's life. were only a few days or a few hours, would that be enough to justify love?
I haven't any behavior to justify. I've just been unlucky.
You justify murder?
Could Mr. Davis justify his conclusion?
That doesn't justify acting like a madman.
I was eloquent. He wants to write about you if your paintings justify my words.
You wouldn't mind working just once in a while. just to justify this lofty position, would you?
I'll work hard to justify your confidence.
How could I justify myself?
The plunder alone will justify the struggle.

News and current affairs

So what could justify another huge increase in gold prices from here?
In my view, the most powerful argument to justify today's high price of gold is the dramatic emergence of Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East into the global economy.
Strategic hawks, however, are open to practical bargains and compromises - if the circumstances are right and if the security considerations justify it in their eyes.
Rich countries could justify the expense in terms of the savings that would result from early detection of a major threat.
In our attempts to defend and justify ourselves over the past year, we Saudis learned about the consequences of extremism at Waco, Texas and Oklahoma City.
There is some optimism about Japan getting on its feet again, but over the past, vastly disappointing, decade, too many pseudo-recoveries have been glimpsed in Japan to justify such hopes.
It may also be that notice has been taken of the precedent, and that those authorities that intend to use it to justify future moves are loathe to criticize it.
Supporters of capital punishment usually put forward three arguments to justify state-sanctioned killing of those who take the life of another.
So, how seriously must we take the ideological reasons that killers like Breivik and the September 11 terrorists invoke to justify their murders?
Radicals use the inability to attain political objectives peacefully to inspire fanatical action and to justify forms of violence normally considered unacceptable.
The law thus puts Colombia on a path to peace by blunting the FARC's appeal to land reform to justify its untold atrocities.
They will come later, and will depend on whether George Bush and Tony Blair can justify their onslaught on a largely defenseless population.
They will have to do so because their programs do not work well enough to justify their claims for authority.
Bush's invocation of democracy to justify the invasion of Iraq implied that democracy could be imposed at the barrel of a gun.
We are taught early on in our lives that the end cannot justify the means.
Americans also are more aware of how such attacks are used to justify abuses of their own rights.
With no military personnel risking their lives, UAVs make it easier to kill, and to justify war operations to the public at home.
To the Spaniards, it helps to justify their abrupt withdrawal from Iraq in 2004; for the Turks, it is yet another vehicle in their struggle, as the vital bridge between Islam and the West, for admission into the European Union.
A brigade of experts descended on the jails, looking for evidence to justify their own pet theories of terrorist psychology.
Serious wrongdoing, involving bribery and institutional corruption, no doubt occurred along the way; but the scale of such offenses could hardly justify last year's military coup and the subsequent repression.
It makes a certain sense to speak of Asian values in Singapore, because it would be disrespectful to the Malay and Indian minorities to justify their subservience by invoking Chinese values.
In the war on terror, it seems, Africa's dictators may find it easier to justify continuing tyranny.
Indeed, while China ratified UNCLOS, it then reinterpreted the provisions to justify cartographic aggression in the South and East China Seas.
Third, the allure of rejoining Europe after years of isolation, together with the European Union's commitment to enlargement, provided a gravitational pull - and a legislative template - that helped policymakers justify and implement difficult reforms.

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