unjustify
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To remove or negate the justification for.
Example Sentences
- "If we were to come to see justice as, like love, something which involves the transformation of existing interests and the creation of new, shared, interests, then we would be less inclined to judge every case of suffering through justice as a case of unmitigated disaster, and less incliend to think that every such case must unjustify the agent's commitment to acting justly."
- "The fact that our best-justified moral judgments and standards are not accepted by others on our grounds for them does not unjustify us in holding them."
- "As Susan Mendus rightly says: "Failure to attain a particular end serves to unjustify the political moralist, but does not unjustify the moral politician, who still has the assurance that his aim was the right one."
Etymology
From un- + justify.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un