justifiable

Preposition: on

• ground: Any loan by the charity to the company would have to be clearly justifiable on investment grounds.

Modifies a noun

• homicide: Why did the jury return a verdict of " justifiable homicide " at the inquest into the death of PC Robert Culley?
• pride: Many of those who took part can feel justifiable pride in what was achieved.
• reason: I've just about thought of a vaguely justifiable reason for spending public money on most things, even the arts.
• anger: Neil and Ann - Yes I agree there is totally justifiable anger within us as individuals and our community.
• criticism: This is, in part, a justifiable criticism.
• complaint: When a hedge grows over 2 meters the local authority does not automatically take action unless a justifiable complaint is made.

Modifying Another Word

• objectively: If the employer refuses they must explain why in writing and give objectively justifiable reasons.
• ethically: None the less, it is arguable that an opt-out system is ethically justifiable in certain circumstances.
• morally: Not only this - is it morally justifiable for people to be punished differently for the same thing?
• economically: Withholding drugs on the economically justifiable grounds of protection of property rights, is an obvious disgrace in humanistic terms.
• commercially: How can an energy efficient tenanted building be achieved and still return commercially justifiable rental charges?
• perfectly: That, of course, is a perfectly justifiable approach to music in the 19th century.

Infinitive complement

• do: Gifts, including samples, should always be returned unless it is not justifiable to do so on the grounds of cost.
• say: Given this metamorphosed imperialism, is it justifiable to say that we live in a postcolonial age?

Used with adjective complement

• seem: The example of its use in the van seems justifiable, its use in planes is logical.
• consider: There are no grounds on which this could be considered justifiable.

Preposition: in

• circumstance: None the less, it is arguable that an opt-out system is ethically justifiable in certain circumstances.
• term: For me they are entirely justifiable in terms of left principle.
• case: Whether impressing of Sailors is justifiable in any case whatsoever?