justified

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unjustified | American Dictionary

unjustified
adjective
us/ʌnˈdʒʌs·təˌfɑɪd/
not able to be explained in a reasonable way; not deserved:
There were admittedly some unjustified delays in some Olympic projects.

Examples of unjustified

unjustified
If they are really unjustified in using those means, then they are war criminals.
Moreover, in both cases the harm flows from an unjustified governmental action, namely the action of enacting the r ule.
The proposed theory is ad hoc and confirmatory in its findings; vague and generic in its claims; and unjustified and unnecessary in its (putative) novelty.
He has been raised in circumstances in which trusting the police has been unjustified.
There is a tacit but quite unjustified assumption in traditional grammar that nouns can appear in adjunct function only when accompanied by an explicit dependent.
These negative reactions may in turn lead to the infliction of (justified or unjustified) privately inflicted sanctions such as social stigmatization and isolation.
Yet age is by no means an innocent criterion; it gives rise to unjustified forms of discrimination.
This is a highly questionable and unjustified distinction, which would hardly be of interest elsewhere in the natural sciences.
It did not accept the general principle that cruelty to animals for amusement was unjustified.
The use of spatial constraint would then be unjustified.
Surely, the whole implication of their commentary - that the existence of one kind of perceptual-cognitive capability excludes the existence of another - is unjustified.
Regarding efficiency, our initial concerns were clearly unjustified.
This presentation seems somewhat weakened by the unjustified comment that the pattern "improves" on the possible confusion of the similarly pronounced was and wasn't.
Therefore, inequalities of opportunity are unjustified even if they enhance the opportunities available to the least advantaged.
Furthermore, in each legal system there may be no unifying legal provision for all the hypothetical cases that produce unjustified decisions-as-acts or unjustified decisions-as-rules.
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