to do justice
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4.1
- phrasal verb
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hacer justicia a
- No single literature seemed to do justice to the complexity of this story.
- do justice to the complexity
- fail to do justice
- does justice to the way
And I want to do, I want to do justice and, and be respectful of their story, our story.
- And I want to do, I want to do justice and, and be respectful of their story, our story.
- So it wants to be something that really is doing justice to whatever is going on.
- Like, the term does not do justice to how hard this is.
- So I think Professor Emma has done justice to the internal chemistry of batteries.
- Instead we have a synthetic presentation which doesn't do justice to them.
- It's it's wrong, it cheapens it, it doesn't do justice to it.
- No photo nor video, not even this vlog will do justice to you.
- We couldn't even be extensive or, or or mildly serious about, about trying to do justice to the complexity of that body of material.
- So going back to the question, that was the, the, the, the motivation to create this large team was to do justice to the story.
- And so it felt like a huge responsibility to do justice to it and bring nuance to the issue and to her story.
- This leads to a question which is how do you do justice to the possibility of the same thing looking different?
- I just don't know if I would do justice to Shrek.
- Again, I'm not sure I'm doing justice to my learned opponent, but we libertarians see positive rights as anathema.
- One last little thing I don't think we did justice is intention.
Examples
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Like, the term does not do justice to how hard this is.
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No words of praise could even approach doing justice to such an accomplishment.
Fiction book (1999) -
And it's not, it's really to do justice or to do the right thing.
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So it wants to be something that really is doing justice to whatever is going on.
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We're out here to do justice and to keep the peace.
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And she was also an extraordinary human being to whom I cannot do justice to in a few short words.
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And I felt an almost ethical obligation to do justice to the gift.
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By using this analogy, Anselm is able to do justice to the social nature of sin.
Academic text (1992) -
It hardly does justice to the complexities of the novel.
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The documentary really does justice to the struggles of the community it portrays.
Synonyms
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2.3
Show great respect to someone, often in public
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5.4
Treat someone fairly and give them support
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4.1
To show something as well as it really is
Antonyms
How Accurately
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal meanings of 'do' (perform) and 'justice' (fairness) point learners toward a sense of treating something fairly, but the MWE shifts into a metaphorical/ evaluative meaning — 'to represent or show the true value or quality' — which is not fully predictable from the parts. This extension is partially transparent and cross-linguistically attested (e.g., Spanish 'hacer justicia a'), so learners may infer a related idea but not the precise nuance without prior exposure.
Etymology
Do justice comes from the image of a judge who must do 'justice' by giving fair, proper treatment. That's why to do justice to something means 'to show or treat it so people can see its real value'.