Crossword-Solution: JUSTIFY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Justify | a. | To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty. |
| Justify | a. | To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to absolve; to exonerate; to clear. |
| Justify | a. | To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve. |
| Justify | a. | To prove; to ratify; to confirm. |
| Justify | a. | To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4. |
| Justify | v. i. | To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly. |
| Justify | v. i. | To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| JUSTIFY | anagram | JUSTFYI |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with JUSTIFY (5)
AESOP’S FABLES By Aesop Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf And The Lamb WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him.
Bondly came over to see Colonel Lloyd the next day, whether to pay him for his property, or to justify himself in what he had done, I know not.
The sympathetic man still looked the other way, and wondered when she would recover whiteness sufficient to justify him in facing her again.
The people, in the case of which we speak, could justify its prejudice against Roger Chillingworth by no fact or argument worthy of serious refutation.
Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on a normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive command input are often referred to as `batch mode' switches.
Quotes with JUSTIFY (3)
Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.
We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.
There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,” or constitutes a judgment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism and a condemnation that vegetarians (or other consumers of animal products) are “bad” people. Yes to the first part; no to the second. There is no coherent distinction between flesh and other animal products. They are all the same and we cannot justify consuming …
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2006–2022).