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unjust - use in sentences
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- see: Thus we see nothing unjust in providing the trust which owns the appellant with a choice.
Preposition: because
- segregation: All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality.
Modifying Another Word
- manifestly: The order was not manifestly unjust in all the circumstances.
- grossly: Why, in short, was everything so slow, so expensive, so disorderly, so often grossly unjust?
- inherently: Exclusion of workers means society is asked to accept an inherently unjust system.
- fundamentally: I also request that the UK withdraw from such a fundamentally unjust agreement.
- socially: As well as being profoundly socially unjust, the Tories were also grossly inefficient.
- profoundly: The current system is deeply inhumane and profoundly unjust.
Modifies a noun
- enrichment: Also, unjust enrichment is no longer limited to any amount overpaid.
- embargo: He " affirmed support for Iraq in facing up to the unjust embargo.
- imprisonment: In the best traditions of the trade union movement, solidarity was given to Oliver Campbell who is fighting against his unjust imprisonment.
- steward: Usually men cut off half their bill, as the unjust steward, when he owed a hundred, bade him set down fifty.
- accusation: A prominent theme in the plays of William Shakespeare is that of the ambiguous or unjust accusation of infidelity.
- punishment: It is unjust punishment which makes them go on hunger strike.
Infinitive complement
- do: It is no longer obligatory to make such an order today, if it would be unjust to do so.
- deny: Yet it would be unjust to deny it any importance.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: It seems quite unjust to review our decision by taking into account evidence previously excluded.
- consider: Normally any such use of state power would be considered unjust.
- appear: Beatrice concedes that Divine Justice is a matter for faith, and may appear unjust to human beings.
- become: We abolished our Grand Jury in the 30s because it had become manifestly unjust.
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