What does unjustify mean?
Unjustify means To remove or negate the justification for..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
To remove or negate the justification for..
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.
Use unjustify when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unjustify means To remove or negate the justification for..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.