Synonyms for Justifies:

v.
• accounts
- accounts
- clarifies
- describes
- explains
- explicates
- rationalizes
• pleads
- alleges
- begs
- excuses
- pleads
• responds
- Denies
- Replies
- acknowledges
- answers
- defends
- echos
- expounds
- objects
- reacts
- rebuts
- refutes
- responds
- retorts
- returns
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Independent
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  means, supporting, Bases, Does, Gives, Has, Bears, Drives, Permits, Rests, motivates, supports, outlines, vindicates, affirms, approves, endorses, attests, certifies, submits, warrants, authorizes, confirms, allows, demands, necessitates, requires, accounts, clarifies, describes, explains, documents, attributes, reinforces, empowers, strengthens, makes, demonstrates, establishes, indicates, proves, substantiates, advises, informs, suggests, renders, shows, enables, entitles, calls, delivers, provides, argues, relies, evidences, discusses, builds, says, underpins, dictates, identifies, founds, merits, deserves, legitimizes, underlies, outweighs, reaffirms, entails, is, authorises, legitimises, legalises, thatjustifies.

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Other hypernyms:
affirm, corroborate, ratify, substantiate, validate, vindicate.

Usage examples for Justifies

He who lays a sudden hand on wrong-doing may have no legal authority to plead in his defence when challenged, but to all good men such an act justifies itself.

"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"

Marcus Dods

Lieutenant Snodgrass assumed the air of a man, the length of whose matrimonial experience justifies him in extensive allusions to feminine peculiarities.

"The Locusts' Years"

Mary Helen Fee

The work being intenser, demands a shorter day, and being more productive, justifies it.

"Contemporary Socialism"

John Rae

Famous quotes with Justifies

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Georges Bernanos
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

Louis D. Brandeis
The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

George Carey
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

Ralph Chaplin
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Dag Hammarskjold

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