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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having sufficient grounds for justification; possible to justify.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being justified or proved to be just or true; defensible; warrantable: as, justifiable resentment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That can be justified.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective capable of being justified

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

justify +‎ -able

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