to do justice to
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- phrasal verb
:
hacer justicia a
- The polarizing nature of the current debate does not do justice to the complexity of issues.
- do justice to the complexity
- fail to do justice to
- do justice to the story
Like, the term does not do justice to how hard this is.
- 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.
- It's it's wrong, it cheapens it, it doesn't do justice to it.
- Instead we have a synthetic presentation which doesn't do justice to them.
- No photo nor video, not even this vlog will do justice to you.
- He says these laws display a poverty that doesn't do justice to the manifold variety of organic nature.
- 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.
- But I'll let the world do justice to him.
- And she was also an extraordinary human being to whom I cannot do justice to in a few short words.
- 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.
Examples
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No single literature seemed to do justice to the complexity of this story.
Academic text (1999) -
However, the reports alone cannot do justice to the assembly itself or to the debate it generated.
Academic text (1991) -
Like, the term does not do justice to how hard this is.
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"This record does not do justice to the group."
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I'm not really sure that I fully did justice to how amazing this was on the page.
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No plot summary can do justice to this unusual film.
Academic text (2017) -
A clever put-down, but this hardly seems to do justice to the man.
Academic text (1992) -
By using this analogy, Anselm is able to do justice to the social nature of sin.
Academic text (1992) -
But "dry" doesn't do justice to his ambition or his integrity as a concert pianist.
Academic text (2001) -
The documentary does justice to the struggles faced by the community.
Synonyms
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4.1
Show a person or thing so people can see its true value
Antonyms
How Accurately
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3.5
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4.8
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense is clearly related to the constituent meanings: 'do' (perform) + 'justice' (fairness) gives a plausible interpretation of 'perform fairness' or 'treat fairly', so a learner who knows both words can often infer the general idea. However, the specific collocational pattern 'do justice to' is a conventionalized light-verb phrase and the exact nuance of 'represent/portray fairly' is somewhat idiomatic and relies on familiarity with the construction, so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Do justice to comes from the idea of giving someone fair treatment: imagine a judge who must do the right thing and give justice. So, to do justice to something today means 'to show or treat it fairly and properly'.