justify

Definition for justify

verb as in legitimize, substantiate

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advocate, condone, confirm, countenance, defend, explain, favor, maintain, rationalize, support, sustain, uphold, validate, vindicate, warrant

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absolve, acquit, alibi, approve, assert, brief, claim, clear, contend, crawl, establish, exculpate, excuse, exonerate, legalize, palliate, pardon, plead, rebut, square, verify

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answer for, apologize for, argue for, be answerable for, bear out, cop a plea, do justice to, make allowances, make good, show cause, speak in favor, stand up for

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“Colonizers needed a way to justify enslavement, genocide and forced conversion. So they painted African and Indigenous religions as evil.”

From Los Angeles Times

But Loudermilk is partially justifying his ongoing obsession about Jan. 6 as if there was some dark cover-up.

From Salon

Prosecutors in Brest have opened an investigation on two counts: refusing an order to stop and failing to justify the nationality of the ship's flag.

From BBC

Going undercover involves deception and intrusion as tools of public interest journalism, and to justify this there needs to be sufficient evidence of wrongdoing.

From BBC

Such arguments, they say, can be used to justify the criminalization of minority groups or silence dissent.

From Los Angeles Times

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