justifiable
They are justifiably worried about the slowdown in the economy.
The police were justifiably criticized in the case.
She is justifiably concerned about the state of the country.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Virtue and moral good
altruism
angel
angelic
angelically
be as pure as the driven snowidiom
justifiable
justified
loftiness
lofty
magnanimity
rightness
saintly
self-forgetful
self-forgetfully
the road to hell is paved with good intentionsidiom
upstanding
virtuous
virtuously
white hat
wholesomely

Examples of justifiably

justifiably
One can justifiably contend that virtually all laws of association, for example, have been discovered in this manner.
Because not-married women enjoyed the independent legal standing denied to their married counterparts, one may justifiably compare their recorded credit activities with those of men.
By any standards this work is a tour de force of which the editors and their twelve contributors should be justifiably proud.
Likewise, other factors may affect whether one can justifiably give exclusive propositions decisive assent.
Although justifiably proud of recent successes, he was, like most physicians of his day, deeply ignorant of the nature of the epidemiological environment.
As an anonymous reviewer pointed out, there are, of course, situations in which a service may be justifiably refused, such as selling alcohol to children.
Legal duties are binding to us all, and they can be justifiably enforced by public sanctions.
When a current is present each of the interactions illustrated in figures 4-7 is justifiably regarded as being locally constant.
This may be the reason people typically agree on and justifiably cite when they think about the moral importance of health care services.
Given the limited means at his disposal, this was an accomplishment he might justifiably wish to point out.
Historians might justifiably ask what new light the book sheds on our understanding of the history of the period.
It may also be justifiably felt that the philosophy of 'equi-natalism' should be discussed further.
He is also justifiably critical of lost opportunities arising from reporters failing to assess the competence of interviewees to answer a question.
Rights are claims that we can justifiably make against others to be regarded and treated in specified ways.
In both cases, the good parent might justifiably punish her child simply because she deserved it.
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