If Mr Blair has gone back on a private deal, the chancellor ca feel justifiably aggrieved.

Those who had spent years and even decades longer than they were sentenced to would feel justifiably outraged.

The management and staff can feel justifiably proud of their success in achieving the AA Hotel of the Year.

Nurses can feel justifiably proud of what has been achieved without losing public sympathy or the support of professional colleagues in other disciplines.

Jan felt justifiably exasperated at these Spanish-speaking people.

Two years later, however, it was, and Gould felt justifiably proud of his contribution to Blair's overwhelming victory.

"Here you thought you had put the matter to rest." Alexia was feeling justifiably smug.