The phrase "justly criticized" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to criticism given for a particular action or situation that is viewed as fair and deserved. For example: "The mayor was justly criticized for her decision to raise taxes without consulting the public."
Republicans justly criticized the tactic then, and they should know better than to invoke it now.
Ms. Brown was justly criticized, Ms. Scanlon notes, for not allowing certain subjects into her magazine.
As the British psychiatrist Simon Wessely has put it: "Generals are justly criticized for fighting the last war, not the present one.
At the time, the film was justly criticized for underplaying the role of African-Americans in the struggle, but its larger, philosophical transgression went largely unnoticed.
Donald Trump's proposal to build a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico to block the flow of migrants has been justly criticized on moral, economic and political grounds.
OVER the last 11 years, as we fought an unnecessary war in Iraq and an unnecessarily long one in Afghanistan, the civilian American leadership has been thoroughly — and justly — criticized for showing poor judgment and lacking strategies for victory.
The West constantly, and often justly, criticizes the Chinese government for sitting on its hands as movies, songs, books and luxury goods are counterfeited and sold.
"The Misuse of Life Without Parole" (editorial, Sept. 13) justly criticizes the overuse of life-without-parole sentences and highlights the informed recommendations of the American Law Institute, but it does not address the reasons this sentence is particularly inappropriate for youth.
She threw no temper tantrums, called for no investigations and did not touch the fine line between whining and justly criticizing the officials in her post-match news conference.
In "Wedded to Poverty" (Op-Ed, July 29), Michael Tanner justly criticizes ties in the welfare reauthorization bill that would bind states to promote marriage; "healthy two-parent married families" will not ultimately offer a solution to our welfare woes.
While behavioral finance advocates may justly criticize rationalizations as unlikely to lead to a science of financial economics with improving predictive power, rational finance's explanatory power plays a key role supporting the limits of arbitrage arguments that make behavioral finance possible.
