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justifications
noun as in whys and wherefores
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Historical justifications for most modern celebrations can be found in the ancient world.
With women put in front of the public to justify staying with bad men, we see these justifications in full bloom.
The indications vary, but progressive poor response and medication intolerance are a few possible justifications.
Other justifications, such as procreation and the raising of children, have been dismissed as bogus.
All leaders involved have to tone down their “explanations” and self-justifications.
The true justifications of war lie far below the depths of any soundings taken upon the charts of effeminate earth-born ethics.
Convicted of immorality, he remained conscious of private justifications, in a way that human beings have.
Our justifications for not continuing to feed ourselves were: Pursuit of wealth, command of the sea, island position.
Painfully and with enforced mental readjustments, they began a philosophical search for excuses and justifications for the idea.
Reasons for honesty and disinterestedness were converted for the occasion into justifications of falsehood and artifice.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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