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unjust Definition

un·just (-just′)

adjective

  1. not just or right; unfair; contrary to justice
  2. Obsolete dishonest or unfaithful

  • unjudicial
  • unjustifiable
  • unjustifiably
  • unjustified
unjust Related Forms
un·just′ly adverb un·just′·ness noun
unjust Synonyms

unjust

modif.

wrong, inequitable, wrongful; see unfair 1.

unjust Usage Examples

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.
unjust Quotes

To fight for the right, to abhor the imperfect, the unjust, or the mean, to swerve neither to the right hand nor the left, to care nothing for flattery or applause or odium or abuseöit is so easy to have any of them in Indiaönever to let your enthusiasm be soured or your courage grow dim but to remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of his ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time and to feel that somewhere among those millions you have left, a little justice, or happiness or prosperity, a sense of manliness or moral dignity, a springof patriotism, a dawn of intellectual enlightenmentora stirringofduty whereit did not exist beforeöthat is enough, that is the Englishman's justification in India.

—Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel

Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

—Plato

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in 116 much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

—Bible (NewTestament)