justified

adjective

jus·ti·fied ˈjə-stə-ˌfīd

Synonyms of justified next

: having or shown to have a just, right, or reasonable basis

a justified punishment

a justified reputation for toughness

Such work calls for a combination of training and talent that few can lay justified claim to …—

Bernard Knox

typography

: aligned evenly at the margin

a justified line of text

In justified composition, where the type must be flush with both the left and right margins, the machine will automatically expand or condense the word space or hyphenate end-of-line words to fill up the line measure.—

Ray Blair and Thomas M. Destree

: made even by spacing lines of text

a document with justified margins

Examples of justified in a Sentence

in a well-justified ruling the court voted unanimously to overturn the law the use of force to capture the armed fugitive was fully justified

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This involves making sure that the company takes risks that are well justified, and the skeptics views are critical for informing these calculations. —

Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025 Black and brown people, especially in more rural and suburban areas, are now operating with a level of hyper vigilance, having a justified paranoia that violence could descend on them at any time. —

Banseka Kayembe, refinery29.com, 22 Aug. 2024 People do have reason to be angry—but even justified anger does not justify murder. —

Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024 Those details are worth bearing in mind as some people seek to cast his killing as a tale of justified, or at least understandable, fury against faceless corporate greed. —

Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 14 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for justified