Outrageous vs Justifiable - What's the difference?
outrageous | justifiable |
Cruel, violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.
* c. 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , First Folio 1623:
* 2011 , Paul Wilson, (The Guardian) , 19 Oct 2011:
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.4:
Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate.
* 2004 , David Smith, , 19 Dec 2004:
Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
, passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}
* 2001 , Imogen Tilden, (The Guardian) , 8 Dec 2001:
*:"It's something I really am quite nervous about," he admits, before adding, with relish: "You have to be a bit outrageous and challenging sometimes."
That can be justified.
* 1917 , Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory ,
As adjectives the difference between outrageous and justifiable
is that outrageous is cruel, violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront while justifiable is that can be justified.outrageous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- To be, or not to be, that is the Question: / Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde to suffer / The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, / Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them [...].
- The Irish-French rugby union whistler Alain Rolland was roundly condemned for his outrageous decision that lifting a player into the air then turning him over so he falls on his head or neck amounted to dangerous play.
- For els my feeble vessell, crazd and crackt / Through thy strong buffets and outrageous blowes, / Cannot endure, but needes it must be wrackt [...].
- Audience members praised McKellen, best known for Shakespearean roles and as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, for his show-stealing turn as Twankey in a series of outrageous glitzy dresses.
George Goodchild
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* *justifiable
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Part II.
- ''It was at all times clear that, from the point of view of the idea it conveys to us, every motion must be considered only as a relative motion. Returning to the illustration we have frequently used of the embankment and the railway carriage, we can express the fact of the motion here taking place in the following two forms, both of which are equally justifiable :
- ''(a) The carriage is in motion relative to the embankment,
- ''(b) The embankment is in motion relative to the carriage.
- In (a) the embankment, in (b) the carriage, serves as the body of reference in our statement of the motion taking place. —