justifiable criticism

collocation in English

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justifiable
adjective
uk
/ˈdʒʌs.tɪ.faɪ.ə.bəl/us
/ˈdʒʌs.tə.faɪ.ə.bəl/
If something is justifiable, there is a good reason ...
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criticism
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkrɪt.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/us
/ˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/
the act of saying that something or someone ...
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(Definition ofjustifiableandcriticismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Ayalon's scholarship has come in for somejustifiablecriticismin recent years.
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However, one can only go on experimenting for so long, and this would certainly have exposed us to serious and probablyjustifiablecriticism.
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But it is not only on the balance of payments that we believe there has beenjustifiablecriticism.
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I meant that there will be nojustifiablecriticism.
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It would be remarkable if it could from time to time escapejustifiablecriticismfrom one quarter or another.
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Because that has not always happened, there is in consequence a good deal ofjustifiablecriticismof a number of comprehensive schools which exist.
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That is far from being ajustifiablecriticism.
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Ajustifiablecriticismhas therefore been remedied since the time of the report.
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If no notice was given there would have beenjustifiablecriticismof introducing requirements heartlessly and without adequate preparations.
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But it is not true that the standing of this country or its relations internally are subject tojustifiablecriticism.
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In this case, that would be ajustifiablecriticismof the new clause.
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In this field, reasonable andjustifiablecriticismcan never amount to contempt.
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For all thejustifiablecriticismof particular aspects of public sector housing, in general we need have no shame about what we have achieved.
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Finally, their policy on unified housing benefit has caused considerable andjustifiablecriticismacross a wide range of opinion.
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That was not an entirelyjustifiablecriticism, even from the beginning.
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This is ajustifiablecriticismof our aid statistics.
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We believe that it meets the whollyjustifiablecriticismof the judiciary about the effect of the erosion of differentials between different lenghts of sentence.
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There can be nojustifiablecriticismof that.
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The assumption that we have rights in all sorts of matters has become subject tojustifiablecriticism.
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That is probably ajustifiablecriticism.
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