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injustice

[in-juhs-tis]

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noun

the quality or fact of being unjust; inequity.

violation of the rights of others; unjust or unfair action or treatment.

an unjust or unfair act; wrong.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Latin injūstitia. See in-³, justice

Related forms

su·per·in·jus·tice, noun

Synonyms
2. injury, wrong; tort.

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But there have always been people willing to stand up boldly and courageously against such injustice.

Some students in the university have been involved in university policy before ever facing this huge injustice.

And nothing enrages people more than the perception of deep injustice.

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But there have always been people willing to stand up boldly and courageously against such injustice.

Some students in the university have been involved in university policy before ever facing this huge injustice.

And nothing enrages people more than the perception of deep injustice.

His years in prison strengthened his resolve and now he uses his camera as a weapon to fight against war and injustice.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

For years, we've been tossing our little buckets of water on the blazes of social injustice.

Wells used her pen and her voice to keep issues of injustice in the public domain.

The researchers' conclusion is that humans are hard-wired not for logic but for detecting injustice.

However, there is a historical precedent for a war being fought over an injustice done to a king.

It may be an injustice to some, but that's the way the system works.

It is so rarely applied that whenever someone evokes the law, the accuser cries injustice.

In large measure, the quest for justice emerges from the pain of injustice.

When senior people are rewarded for mediocrity, mutinous feelings of injustice may cause people to work less hard.

She intends to become a lawyer in order to help women defend themselves against violence and injustice.

People need to know they have non-violent alternatives for fighting injustice.

But the problem is that they frame the debate in a way that validates a global system of injustice.

There is enough real injustice to go around--this doesn't qualify.

And those who are favoured by history can deplore injustice and sympathise with suffering without the crutch of national pride.

They need it badly lest injustice prevail otherwise.

The other set of questions regards civil disobedience and violence in the face of injustice.

The other is protesting against the first, but also over a geographical injustice.

There is inherent injustice in the world's belated realization of how our many dirty industries damage and have damaged the world.

Indignant locals can be merciless as the foreigner is objectified, therefore allowing any injustice no matter how outrageous.

The public does scientists and science and themselves an injustice by asking for and expecting truth.

Stop the injustice and occupation and wars will end.

However, the proper use of privilege is to dismantle injustice and expand opportunity.

Two themes predominate: economic rationality and social injustice.

That's why people who stand up for injustice are looked upon so highly and admired.

Kurds want prosperity, free from injustice of tribal life.

Evidence of the huge injustice of the death penalty, and of the particular barbarism of lethal injection, continues to mount.

Terrorism is, first, not an immediate response to an injustice.

But, as the film shows, the two men encounter increasing poverty and injustice on their trek across the continent.

We have received two or three sharp letters severely censuring us for alleged injustice towards the colored race.

But it only adds to the frustration of opponents who see social and political injustice around every corner.

The fundamental objection to the rebate plan was its injustice to the real owners of.

To make you a willing host it relieves your anxieties of death and injustice by offering eternal life and divine retribution.

Very exaggerated accounts of the character of the papers and the price received were published and injustice was done to.

Critiques include the injustice of the high incomes.

On the other is a vague feeling of injustice that probably hasn't been stoked by the perception of any specific victim.

He bound us together by challenging us to be smarter, funnier, and angrier at injustice.

Financial compensation may be only a small response after the gross injustice that exonerees have suffered.

Such portrayal does an injustice to serious proponents on all sides of the issue.

Mahtade said they had left a letter complaining of injustice and saying that they had been left with only the escape option.

Termination after three years may or may not have involved some seeming injustice.

But the panic in the party is palpable-along with a mounting sense of injustice.

Throughout his life, he was always compelled to speak out against injustice and indifference.

He liked tales of resistance to injustice that ended well or big challenges successfully met.

To decry, however, the natural talents of the colored cook would be doing such faithful creatures a crying injustice.

The means of perfect justice are also the means of perfect injustice.

Well intentioned students were trying to correct an injustice that simply had not happened.

Lithuania went for the big charges because it plays well to their anti-Russian wing and their general feelings of injustice.

Please don't advocate that women should accept this injustice by choosing to sacrifice family entirely for career or vice versa.

To have awareness of social injustice is a quite reasonable requirement for someone preparing to wade into the fray.

There is injustice on the labor floor with two workers doing the identical work.

We decry the injustice of capitalism–often without acknowledging that it has worked out decently for.

We know this intuitively even as kids but we've invented intellectually tortured ways to justify injustice.

Dramatic stories of hardship and injustice have always been at the center of the struggle for racial equality.

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World English Dictionary

injustice (ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs)

—n
1.	the condition or practice of being unjust or unfair
2.	an unjust act

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Word Origin & History

injustice

late 14c., from Fr. injustice, from L. injustitia, from injustus "unjust, wrongful, oppressive," from in- "not" + justus "just" (see just (adj.)).

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