unjustified

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Definition of unjustified

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Not justified, having no justification, unwarranted.
    “Near-synonym: unjustifiable”
    “the unjustified killing of an innocent”
    “Modern sceptical historians are happy to write Dark Age history without naming kings and warleaders of the period, and it seems quite unjustified to take Gildas to task for doing the same thing.”
    “US President Joe Biden condemned Russia’s “unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces” in a statement Wednesday evening following explosions in Ukraine.”
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adj

  1. Not justified, having no justification, unwarranted.
    “Near-synonym: unjustifiable”
    “the unjustified killing of an innocent”
    “Modern sceptical historians are happy to write Dark Age history without naming kings and warleaders of the period, and it seems quite unjustified to take Gildas to task for doing the same thing.”
    “US President Joe Biden condemned Russia’s “unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces” in a statement Wednesday evening following explosions in Ukraine.”
  2. Not justified (of text, arranged on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned)
    “unjustified text in a wordprocessor”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of unjustify

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Etymology

From un- + justified.

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