The Collaborative International Dictionary
Justifiable \Jus"ti*fi`a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. justifiable. See Justify.] Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.
Just are the ways of God,
And justifiable to men.
--Milton.
Syn: Defensible; vindicable; warrantable; excusable; exculpable; authorizable. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*ble*ness, n. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*bly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. in a justifiable manner; with justification
WordNet
adv. with good reason; "he is justifiably bitter" [syn: with reason] [ant: unjustifiably]
Usage examples of "justifiably".
The former may be described as duties for the satisfactory discharge of which Congress justifiably feels that a specialized and informed judgment is requisite.
Lord Beaverbrook should be free to encourage the prolonged resistance of Russia by taking a justifiably hopeful view of these more distant prospects.
Surrealism tends toward universality, and the curious but profound reproach that Breton makes to Marx consists in saying quite justifiably that the latter is not universal.
One may justifiably accept propositions which strict science cannot establish and believe in the existence of a thing which science cannot reveal, as Jacobi has abundantly shown41 and as Wagner has with less ability tried to illustrate.
She amused herself by compiling a list of epithets to which Johann might justifiably lay claim: sneaksby, basket-scrambler, hedge-bird.
Any errors we made were most often blamed on my horsemanship, and justifiably so.
Back then, people were still justifiably worried about encountering hostile aliens as CST wormholes were continually opened on new planets farther and farther away from Earth.
Justifiably smug since his success at commandeering a room that overlooked the harbor, Lord Commander Diegan glanced up in startlement.
The explosives experts and bomb technicians with whom I spoke were justifiably concerned that this book neither be instructional, nor reveal the exact capabilities by which bomb techs ply their trade.
Platform observers will therefore justifiably claim that the light reached the president of Forwardland first.
It has often occurred to me in the course of my medical practice, to doubt whether we can justifiably infer—in cases of delirium—that the loss of the faculty of speaking connectedly, implies of necessity the loss of the faculty of thinking connectedly as well.
As far as he was concerned, he was justifiably proud of them, even if they were on the low side of average up-time.
To borrow the phrase so beloved of textbook writers, it is left as an exercise for the reader to judge if such methods could have given results justifiably acclaimed as being highly significant.
This is called ``horse opera,'' a justifiably derisive term when such physical action is the only kind of conflict in the story.
Imperial Command was justifiably paranoid when it came to information security.