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injustice

[ in-juhs-tis ]

/ ɪnˈdʒʌs tɪs /

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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 of injustice

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

SYNONYMS FOR injustice

2 injury, wrong; tort.

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OTHER WORDS FROM injustice

su·per·in·jus·tice, noun

Words nearby injustice

injure, injurious, injury, injury list, injury time, injustice, ink, ink ball, ink fountain, ink in, ink jet

Example sentences from the Web for injustice

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

Ed Brooke: The Senate's Civil Rights Pioneer and Prophet of a Post-Racial America |John Avlon |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
I have now decided to go on hunger strike to protest at this injustice.

An American Marine in Iran’s Prisons Goes on Hunger Strike |IranWire |December 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“Injustice is injustice, no matter who it touches,” I told Essence Magazine recently.

The Post-Brown and Garner Question: Who ‘Deserves’ to Die? |Goldie Taylor |December 9, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
This video remedies that injustice, showcasing an owl doing a butterfly stroke in Lake Michigan.

Swimming Owls, Jane Krakowski’s Peter Pan Live! Audition, and More Viral Videos |The Daily Beast Video |December 7, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Another chilling recipe for injustice and resentment by closing down the open society you seek to promote.

To Stop ISIS, Britain Is Set to Stop Free Speech |Nico Hines |November 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He showed much regret for the seizure, and the injustice we had received from Alcaraz and others.

Original Narratives of Early American History |Vaca and Others
Religion should never be associated in the mind of a child with injustice, cruelty, or any meanness.

Dickens As an Educator |James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
The injustice of that Potentate will not permit all to perish.

The Mediaeval Mind (Volume I of II) |Henry Osborn Taylor
Here then we have a full view of the assembly's injustice; about which there has been so much insolent triumph!

The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, [Vol 3 of 3] |Benjamin Franklin
And yet, for all that, it is not right that the doer of injustice such as thine should escape scot-free.

Bubbles of the Foam |Unknown

British Dictionary definitions for injustice

injustice

/ (ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs) /

noun

the condition or practice of being unjust or unfair

an unjust act