(a.) Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- said both of persons and things.
(a.) Not transgressing the requirement of truth and propriety; conformed to the truth of things, to reason, or to a proper standard; exact; normal; reasonable; regular; due; as, a just statement; a just inference.
(a.) Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge.
(adv.) Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.
(adv.) Closely; nearly; almost.
(adv.) Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late.
(v. i.) To joust.
(n.) A joust.
Example Sentences:
Justness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being just; conformity to truth, propriety, accuracy, exactness, and the like; justice; reasonableness; fairness; equity; as, justness of proportions; the justness of a description or representation; the justness of a cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yes, they brought genius and organisational skills, for which they justly receive kudos.
(2) The above principle, of which my 24-carat Tory pupil-master was so justly proud, is now hanging by a thread, one which the Ministry of Justice's plans will finally sever.
(3) Regretting the necessity of going into closed session, Neuberger said the Treasury had argued that without reading the secret judgment of Mr Justice Mitting [in a lower court] "we cannot be wholly confident of disposing of the bank's appeal justly without considering the closed judgment".
(4) They are victims of what John Prescott and Yvette Cooper called Pathfinder slum clearance , a title justly echoing Bomber Harris's campaign to smash German cities .
(5) Hastings, Sheffield and their allies rely on the work of Fritz Fischer, a German historian who in 1961 published a justly celebrated book, based on painstaking research in the German archives, about Germany's aims in the first world war .
(6) The American author Jonathan Franzen might justly be called a perfectionist: his latest opus, Freedom, took nine years of painstaking effort to complete inside a spartan writing studio – and is now being widely acclaimed as a modern masterpiece.
(7) The legislature was just taking too long to act morally and justly.
(8) If the mot juste was always a priority – "I suppose we all have our foibles.
(9) Even a hacked-back state ought to deal with the individual justly.
(10) They are no longer proudly addressing the needs of those with learning disorders in their own community, and paid justly for the skills they have acquired and the love they expend.
(11) Jon Savage Jon Savage is a cultural commentator whose books include England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945 20 March 1966: The Who signal the start of swinging london The Who Photograph: Observer Colin Jones's justly famous photograph captures the Who at a moment of maximum combustibility: "I'd never met a band that were so antagonistic towards each other," he later recalled.
(12) The fighter said the US-led coalition to fight the militant group was a sure sign of the justness of their cause.
(13) Separately, Carsten Juste, the editor of the Jyllands-Posten, issued his own apology.
(14) However, this type of surgery has always been dreaded and the loss of the voice has been the consequence most justly feared by patients and doctors alike.
(15) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday 29 May 2009 Near homophone corner: referring to the leader comment below, a reader justly asks, "Calling Miliband and Johnson Messers may well have been an opinion but could you have meant Messrs?".
(16) The NHS has a lot that it can justly be proud about.
(17) In the final scene of the latter, Charles, the unfaithful husband (Michel Bouquet), uses the word "juste" 17 times in different ways.
(18) Justly or unjustly - and inevitably this is not a black and white issue - he is a broken leader.
(19) He notes that moral obligations to a particular patient may at times be superseded by the social obligation to allocate health care resources justly; to pursue research to benefit future patients; and to engage in preventive medicine to benefit potential patients.
(20) Carsten Juste said: "The 12 cartoons ... were not intended to be offensive, nor were they at variance with Danish law, but they have indisputably offended many Muslims, for which we apologise."