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warrantable
adjective as in defensible
Strongest matches
adjective as in excusable
adjective as in justifiable
adjective as in lawful
Weak matches
adjective as in legit
Weak matches
- authorized
- bona fide
- canonical
- card-carrying
- commanded
- condign
- constitutional
- decreed
- due
- enacted
- enforced
- enjoined
- established
- innocent
- judged
- judicial
- jural
- juridical
- jurisprudent
- just
- justifiable
- kosher
- legal
- legalized
- legislated
- legitimate
- legitimatized
- licit
- mandated
- of right
- official
- on the level
- on the up and up
- ordained
- ordered
- passed
- permissible
- proper
- protected
- rightful
- ruled
- statutory
- valid
- vested
- warranted
adjective as in tenable
Example Sentences
"I know what fewmets are,” said the boy with interest "They are the droppings of the beast pursued. The harborer keeps them in his horn, to show to his master, and can tell by them whether it is a warrantable beast or otherwise, and what state it is in.”
The tremendous forest of Sherwood stretched round the tent-forest further than the eye could see—and this was full of wild boars, warrantable stags, outlaws, dragons, and Purple Emperors.
Scholars and survivors of the society are frequently determined, beyond what is warrantable by the facts, to see the spectre of Birchism in any full-throated contemporary manifestation of conservatism.
How he found a "Warrantable Deer."
The huntsman blows his horn, and soon the welkin rings with a chorus of brass instruments; the tufters dash into covert, and anon the cheerful note of Ponto or Gripper gives warning that a warrantable fox is on foot—well, of course, he couldn't be on horseback, but this is merely a venatorial façon de parler.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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