Words similar to justly
Example sentences for: justly
How can you use “justly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Not expecting to be treated justly, he fled to the hills, and from then on, Vásquez led a life of horse stealing, robbery, and hiding out in the foothills of California.
Here's one, from criminologist John DiIulio: "There is so much crime without punishment in America today because recent generations of social and political elites, both liberal and conservative, have liberated themselves from the belief that criminals are free moral agents and that publicly sanctioned punishments are what they justly deserve."
But he adds, very justly, that a derivation from Ital. Dio , God, resting upon the modern English pronunciation of dear , finds no support in the history of the word.
"You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains, and liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair," Johnson said.
The Québécois can justly claim to be cofounders of the Canadian nation.