JUSTIFIES
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Definition
verb
- To provide an acceptable explanation for.“How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?”
- To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.“Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.”
- To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.“The text will look better justified.”
- To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.“She felt no need to justify herself for deciding not to invite him.”
Source: Wiktionary
