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injustice

[ in-juhs-tis ]

noun

  1. the quality or fact of being unjust; inequity.
  2. violation of the rights of others; unjust or unfair action or treatment.

    Synonyms: tort, wrong, injury

  3. an unjust or unfair act; wrong.


injustice

/ ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs /

noun

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


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Other Words From

  • super·in·justice noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of injustice1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin injūstitia; equivalent to in- 3 + justice

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Example Sentences

In a moment marked by racial injustice, these companies were reluctant to even use the word “race,” regularly opting to use “diversity” instead.

The pandemic — and the racial injustice protests that have roiled cities throughout the summer — appear to have brought even more people into the militia movement’s orbit.

Those reduced barriers seem likely to lead to even more athlete activism that shines a spotlight on racial injustices in America going forward.

Our kickoff event focused on CHROs and other human resources leaders, and—given the twin crises of the pandemic and the reckoning over racial injustice—it’s tough to think of a group facing a more complicated and urgent set of challenges.

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Then the rookies would have learned, and the cycle of racial injustice in policing would continue.

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It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time.

But the real mystery and injustice came from Brooke being essentially written out of the history of the civil rights movement.

I have now decided to go on hunger strike to protest at this injustice.

“Injustice is injustice, no matter who it touches,” I told Essence Magazine recently.

This video remedies that injustice, showcasing an owl doing a butterfly stroke in Lake Michigan.

All bribery, and injustice shall be blotted out, and fidelity shall stand for ever.

But in a malignant war there is injustice of ignobler kind at once to God and man, which must be stemmed for both their sakes.

Monsieur de Garnache does us the injustice to find a difficulty in believing that you no longer wish to leave us.

Thine is the spirit of universal liberty and love—of uncompromising hostility to every form of injustice and wrong.

My sense of injustice was touched; and I determined I would, like Tom, if the opportunity served, seek my fortune elsewhere.

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