injustice 
in·jus·tice (in jus′tis)
noun
- the quality of being unjust or unfair; lack of justice; wrong
- an unjust act; injury; wrong
Etymology: OFr < L injustitia
injustice
n.
Unfairness
favoritism, inequality, inequity, partisanship; see favoritism, prejudice.An unfair act
wrong, injury, miscarriage, unfairness, partiality, wrongdoing, malpractice, malfeasance, misfeasance, offense, crime, villainy, iniquity, encroachment, infringement, violation, maltreatment, abuse, outrage, criminal negligence, transgression, tort, grievance, breach, damage, infraction, miscarriage of justice, rotten deal*, a crying shame*, bum rap*; see also evil 1, wrong 2.
Converse of object
- perpetrate: I am still seated in my TV room with a clear image of the severe injustice perpetrated by my people.
- redress: But the British government of today can and should say and do a lot to redress this colossal injustice.
- perpetuate: We may not consider ourselves to be wealthy, but are we greedy and do we knowingly or unknowingly perpetuate injustices?
- suffer: John suffered injustice in that he did not have the opportunity he should have had to maintain progress in his GCSE studies.
- inflict: There is nothing whatever to be said in extenuation of injustice inflicted on the humblest human being.
Preposition: as
- result: However, you have not produced objective evidence to show that you have suffered financial loss or injustice as a result of this.
Preposition: around
Adjective modifier
- unremedied: Secondly, if so, did that maladministration cause an unremedied injustice to Professor Hayward and to others like him?
- blatant: And Vieira has just been fined £ 2,300 for speaking up against the blatant injustice.
- gross: The grant could not have been refused without gross injustice.
- epistemic: A phenomenon of epistemic injustice is explained, and politicizing implications for epistemology educed.
- manifest: None can, without being guilty of manifest injustice, cast any reproach upon it, or upon our design in publishing it.
Preposition: in
- consequence: Lord Penrose did not address the question of whether anyone had sustained " injustice in consequence of maladministration " .
- trade: In a hard-hitting address, Mr Humphries described the growing opposition by thousands of organizations to current injustices in world trade.
- world: In later years he wrote the great Paradise Lost which tackled the causes of evil and injustice in the world.
Preposition: of
Books are written by martyr-men, not for rich men alone but for all men. If we consider it, every human being has, by the nature of the case, a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.
It isusual tospeakof the Fascist objective asthe'beehive state', which does a grave injustice to bees. A world of rabbits ruled by stoats would be nearer the mark.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.
Justice is being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing it.
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
I therefore fearlessly challenge the verdict which this houseis to give on the question now brought before itwhether, as the Roman, in days of old, held himself free from indignity, when he could say Civis Romanus sum; so also a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong.
Justice is superior to injustice. 655
Browse dictionary entries near injustice
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