Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Violation of another's rights or of what is right; lack of justice.
- noun A specific unjust act; a wrong.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of justice or equity; unjust action; violation of another's rights; wrong inflicted.
- noun Synonyms Damage, Harm, etc. (see
injury ); unfairness, foul play, grievance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.
- noun An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Absence ofjustice . - noun
Violation of the rights of another person. - noun
Unfairness ; the state of not being fair or just.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the practice of being unjust or unfair
- noun an unjust act
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I dipped my quill in ink and scratched the word injustice through one of the columns.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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I dipped my quill in ink and scratched the word injustice through one of the columns.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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I dipped my quill in ink and scratched the word injustice through one of the columns.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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I dipped my quill in ink and scratched the word injustice through one of the columns.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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Should we seek to imitate what we term the injustice of
The Buried Temple Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
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Well, they've fallen foul of the Mallorings over what they call injustice to some laborers.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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Well, they've fallen foul of the Mallorings over what they call injustice to some laborers.
The Freelands John Galsworthy 1900
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She had been looking up files of old newspapers, and working herself up into a state of indignation with what she called the injustice and the hypocrisy of the prosecution.
Chance Joseph Conrad 1890
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She had been looking up files of old newspapers, and working herself up into a state of indignation with what she called the injustice and the hypocrisy of the prosecution.
Chance A Tale in Two Parts Joseph Conrad 1890
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Minutes before a Chesterfield County judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison for strangling a former flight attendant-turned prostitute, the man who once aspired to be a police officer delivered a 10-minute rant on what he described as the injustice of his prosecution.
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