Definition of Justifiable

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Definition of Justifiable
	Justifiable Capable of being justified, or shown to be just. Related Definitions: Be, Being, Capable, Just, Justified, Of, Or, Shown, To

Justifiable Quotations

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose Bierce

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Daniel Webster

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
Peter Singer

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.
Carroll Quigley

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
Sallust

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.
Benjamin Tucker

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.
Robert Nozick

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
G. H. Hardy

Justifiable Translations

justifiable in German is entschuldbar, vertretbar
justifiable in Norwegian is forsvarlig
justifiable in Spanish is justificable

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