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Example sentences for "justifiable"

Lexicographically close words:
justiciar; justiciaries; justiciars; justiciarship; justiciary; justifiably; justification; justifications; justificatory; justifie
  1. It may be explained as a necessary and justifiable evolution of the stage.

  2. We take justifiable pride in the glittering figures of our extension of territory, our numerical growth, in the increase of wealth, and in our rise to the potential position of almost the first nation in the world.

  3. Therefore we have a justifiable pride in the growth, the wealth, the power of the nation, the state, the city.

  4. He had a justifiable pride in the fact, as well as in the bride by his side, whom he was taking to see for the first time his old home.

  5. I should not do justice to his own idea of himself if I did not add that he was most respectably connected, and that he had a justifiable though feeble pride in his family.

  6. I will not, indeed, examine too closely how far love made it justifiable for a girl to ask of her lover to kill her.

  7. Any means were justifiable that should enable him to escape that.

  8. Secession, right or wrong, justifiable or unjustifiable, is an accomplished fact; and it presents to us no less an alternative than that of peace or war.

  9. Whoever, without justifiable cause, intentionally kills his neighbor, is guilty of a crime.

  10. There would be great propriety in celebrating a reign which has been productive of so much moral benefit by the abolition of an anomaly which is so entirely without any justifiable foundation.

  11. And the pride is perhaps especially justifiable in one who at the end of his ascent, on the topmost step of the ladder of light, has found banishment, in the man who can date this preface from exile.

  12. The poet's pathos is entirely justifiable in cases like this, where the Revolution showed its dark and unjust side in its dealings with youth and innocence, but it becomes grating and false as soon as his dogmas come into play.

  13. Its stability and proper remuneration furnish the most justifiable pretext for a protective policy.

  14. We often fancy ourselves simple dealers in some justifiable state intrigue, when in truth we are deep in sin.

  15. There might be a device of his enemies, who were numerous and active, or, in truth, there might be some justifiable motive to warrant the applicant in resorting to a measure so hardy.

  16. It is born under a constitution of government which recognizes slavery; while that government provides for slavery, the child must submit or violate an ordinance of God, unless freedom can be had by law, or by justifiable revolution.

  17. Is revolution justifiable in the present case?

  18. They look upon them as acts of war and justifiable aggression.

  19. To tax stimulants for the sole purpose of making them more difficult to be obtained, is a measure differing only in degree from their entire prohibition; and would be justifiable only if that were justifiable.

  20. Within reasonable limits, it is justifiable to treat the economically superior sections of the nation as the eugenically superior.

  21. The reality of the two classes is co-extensive with their similarity, and is the sole foundation for any true inferences or justifiable generalisations about them.

  22. To us who have witnessed the advance which has given rise to this universal hope, the hope itself seems so reasonable and so justifiable that we are apt to overlook the fact that it is without parallel in the history of mankind.

  23. But because such words were afterwards in later generations given an armorial status, it is not justifiable to presume such status for them from their beginnings.

  24. It must also be confessed that Lord Vargrave neglected no baser and less justifiable means to cement his power by placing it on the sure rock of self-interest.

  25. Previous to twenty or thirty years ago, it was justifiable to identify Darwinism with the doctrine of Descent, for at that time Darwinism was the only doctrine of Descent which could claim any general recognition.

  26. How justifiable and how necessary was it not, then, that even three decades ago Wigand should have written his comprehensive work: "Darwinism and the Scientific Researches of Newton and Cuvier.

  27. It was the physical symbol of its owners' position in life; it was the history of their career, written down for all to see, and as such they felt in it the most justifiable pride.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "justifiable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admissible; balanced; cogent; credible; defensible; deserved; dispensable; due; equitable; even; excusable; fair; fit; good; inoffensive; just; justifiable; justified; lawful; legal; legitimate; level; licit; logical; meet; merited; pardonable; permissible; plausible; presumptive; proper; rational; reason; reasonable; right; righteous; rightful; safe; sane; sensible; sound; square; tenable; unobjectionable; venial; warrantable; warranted; wholesome