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Example sentences for "justifiably"

Lexicographically close words:
justiciaries; justiciars; justiciarship; justiciary; justifiable; justification; justifications; justificatory; justifie; justified
  1. Nor can we justifiably withhold this, on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong.

  2. Believing that you of the Border States held more power for good than any other equal number of members, I feel it a duty which I can not justifiably waive to make this appeal to you.

  3. Problems of the foregoing nature, where the commander justifiably departs from his instructions, are not unusual during the first step.

  4. Responsibility and authority, the latter properly apportioned to the former, are inseparably inherent in command, and may not justifiably be severed from one another.

  5. However, he defers, until the next subsection, his choice of the course to be finally selected, or his conclusion that none can justifiably be adopted.

  6. Consequently none but those who through His Grace have undergone "a new birth unto righteousness," can justifiably expect to enter into His Kingdom.

  7. This was a letter written by me to a Minister of the Gospel whose worldliness was justifiably condemned.

  8. He might properly decide to put all who thus showed four years of retardation, in the class of feeble-minded; and he might justifiably decide that those who tested seven years (i.

  9. Certain it is, from the diseases they acquired in the East and disseminated in Europe, one may justifiably argue that their presence was not likely to raise the moral tone of any company they might be pleased to join.

  10. Nursing practice is criticized justifiably when it is not humane and is taken for granted or praised when it is.

  11. Anyone familiar with typical hectic nursing situations could justifiably question the actual attainability of such an existential involvement.

  12. Since each nurse's description of her nursing experience is a glimpse of a real nursing world, the views cannot justifiably be judged as right or wrong; they simply are.

  13. Grimly, justifiably elate, the gunners in a trice had rammed home the next charge.

  14. Thus purged of a very few refractories and inefficients, the ship's company was a happy, loyal and healthy crew, of whom the commander was justifiably proud.

  15. He felt bound to hold him until instructions arrived, and could only justifiably hold him as a prisoner.

  16. But Flinders was angry; justifiably angry no doubt, but unfortunately angry nevertheless, since thereby he lost his chance.

  17. Marrier had been extremely taken up with the dramatic soirée of the Azure Society--which Edward Henry justifiably but quite privately resented.

  18. He justifiably reckoned that he could distinguish between honest and dishonest advertising.

  19. An English painter justifiably loves fog, because he is born in a foggy country; as an Italian painter justifiably loves clearness, because he is born in a comparatively clear country.

  20. Assuredly he might justifiably apply to himself the "Et-Ego-in-Arcadia" inscription in one of his most famous paintings.

  21. What one glibly stigmatizes as brutality and grossness may, after all, be something of a particularly strong savor, enjoyed by the painter himself with a gusto too sterling and instinctive to be justifiably neglected, much less contemned.

  22. I, now mature man, you anticipate, May blame my Father justifiably For letting me dream out my nonage thus, And only by such slow and sure degrees Permitting me to sift the grain from chaff, Get truth and falsehood known and named as such.

  23. Mr. Lenz had been justifiably angry, and the danger, whatever it was, had been real.

  24. Flo was angry now and justifiably so, Judy thought.

  25. His own obtruded opinion was that a priest might justifiably issue such a circular to his parishioners.

  26. Advice, instruction, persuasion, and avoidance by other people if thought necessary by them for their own good, are the only measures by which society can justifiably express its dislike or disapprobation of his conduct.

  27. I consider, however, that there are cases where one will justifiably prefer beauty of construction in a palace to the convenience of a few domestics.

  28. Mrs Clayton Vernon, justifiably alarmed by the expression of her visitor's features.

  29. So he put the glass down untasted, and the barmaid justifiably felt herself to have been insulted.

  30. To the wall then, dizzy and obliged to lean against the cool plaster while her hand labored, but the effort was interesting; she could feel wryly, justifiably certain that no hand had ever written these words on this wall, ever before.

  31. You referred to your notebook, you repeated several remarks verbatim--to some of which the defense might have justifiably objected, if I had seen fit.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "justifiably" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.