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Example sentences for: justifiable
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Because rumors of a Branch Davidian drug lab were floated at Waco (they later turned out to be false), use of Delta Force troops as advisers in the raid may be legally justifiable.
Jones wrote, “The Lex Talionis, in all civil wars is, perhaps, though cruel, yet legal, and upon many occasion, perfectly justifiable.”
The question of whether proper names of people and places have a rightful place in a dictionary is probably an obsolete one: their presence was formerly justified on the grounds that as “words” they are far more frequent than many of the “legitimate” words, like elytron, greave, or mithridatism . That might be justifiable if there were accurate frequency information available.
Some conservative dictionaries published earlier in the 20th century listed a huge number of Scotticisms on the (justifiable) grounds that they would be useful in reading Burns; but most school editions containing Burns's poetry later on supplied glosses, so an ancillary reference proved unnecessary.
The smirk is causing much justifiable worry in Republican circles.