"justified pride" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when someone is proud of an accomplishment that is deserved or deservedly obtained. For example, you can say, "My success in the race filled me with justified pride."
The national game inspires widespread devotion and the national team justified pride.
City Ballet takes justified pride in its legacies of Balanchine and Robbins ballets.
The Kurds, having secured a bitter victory, regard the destroyed city, with justified pride, as their Stalingrad.
Not merely because of justified pride in their own, but because they have not always seen the best of Steyn.
A source of justified pride for Stoke is that they head into the final knowing they will definitely be playing Premier League football for a fourth successive season.
PARIS — From food to fashion to architecture to transportation, the French take a justified pride in their country's reputation for innovation.
An immense amount of justified and understandable pride and joy surrounded the games, but as they wore on fatigue began to mix with annoyance.
Whether you're black or white, these moments are likely to put a lump in your throat and inspire a justified swelling of civic pride.
WHEN Londoners talk up their city as the music capital of the world, their pride is justified, because no other town -- not even Berlin or New York -- could claim performances of such persistent quality and quantity.
There are some marvellous exhibitions of tendentiousness in "Hooking Up," but I think most observers would give the prize to "In the Land of the Rococo Marxists," an essay in which Wolfe sets out to understand why Americans did not greet the new millennium with a fully justified display of patriotic pride.
What makes justified beliefs justified?
