do justice to
idiom
: to treat or show (something or someone) in a way that is as good as it should be
Words could never do justice to her beauty.
The movie does not do justice to the book.
a brief summary that does not do justice to the complexity of this issue
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Sasser said the occasional drink on the house didn’t quite do justice to longtime customers — Mark Rollison, Art Secor, Macon Jordan and former employee James Zang.
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Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2024
The originals remain super-solid examples of how substantially different action comedies can do justice to both action and comedy.
—Michael Phillips, Twin Cities, 7 June 2024
Well, in formulating a richer description of the gravitational interaction that goes beyond the Newtonian understanding, and even before that, in trying to do justice to the symmetry of the equations of electrodynamics, Einstein was led to a more flexible concept of time.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
So when Percy Jackson and the Olympians premieres on Dec. 20, the Disney+ series hopes to finally do justice to Camp Half-Blood on screen.
—EW.com, 15 Dec. 2023
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Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2024
The originals remain super-solid examples of how substantially different action comedies can do justice to both action and comedy.
—Michael Phillips, Twin Cities, 7 June 2024
Well, in formulating a richer description of the gravitational interaction that goes beyond the Newtonian understanding, and even before that, in trying to do justice to the symmetry of the equations of electrodynamics, Einstein was led to a more flexible concept of time.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
So when Percy Jackson and the Olympians premieres on Dec. 20, the Disney+ series hopes to finally do justice to Camp Half-Blood on screen.
—EW.com, 15 Dec. 2023
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“Do justice to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/do%20justice%20to. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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