Example sentences for: justifiable

How can you use “justifiable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the clip, Kennedy raised the question "whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys, whether there was some justifiable reason for me to doubt what had happened and to delay my report."

  • In effect, the tale merely serves as a device for taking a swipe at Starr, which may be justifiable, but this piece doesn't bother to justify it.

  • The smirk is causing much justifiable worry in Republican circles.

  • 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 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.


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