Synonyms for justifying
jus·ti·fy·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "justifying":

   justify, warranting, justification, substantiating

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1. Trey Gowdy:

   I don't know that she testified that much differently today than the previous times she's testified, their problem is they were so focused on justifying their existence and proving that they had something new, that they fabricated this whole parallel universe where Sid Blumenthal was the central figure in Benghazi.

2. Saint Jerome:

   The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

3. Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms in Beyond Good and Evil:

   Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves.

4. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

   A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

5. Johnny Isakson:

   I am demanding answers from the Department of Defense on how they are justifying these troop cuts in Georgia, we cannot afford to reduce our military readiness at a time when the threats to our security here at home and throughout the world are growing at an alarming rate.