Injustice
[ɪn'dʒʌstɪs]
Definition
(noun.) an unjust act.
(noun.) the practice of being unjust or unfair.
Checker: Lola--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.
(n.) An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong.
Editor: Olaf
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Unfairness, iniquity, wrong, grievance, foul play.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See JUDICIOUS]
[See JUSTICE_and_INIQUITY]
Typist: Lottie
Definition
n. violation or withholding of another's rights or dues: wrong: iniquity.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
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Examples
- I saw her, and anger, and hate, and injustice died at her bier, giving place at their departure to a remorse (Great God, that I should feel it! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Shirley, what fit of self-injustice is this? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But the good are just and would not do an injustice? Plato. The Republic.
- If energy remains, it will be rather a dangerous energy--deadly when confronted with injustice. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As for Mr. Fairlie, I believe I am guilty of no injustice if I describe him as being unutterably relieved by having the house clear of us women. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Now then, having determined the power and quality of justice and injustice, let us have a little conversation with him. Plato. The Republic.
- Was the legacy of the Moonstone a proof that she had treated her brother with cruel injustice? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The assemblies for three years held out against this injustice, though constrained to bend at last. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Dinah was a character in her own way, and it would be injustice to her memory not to give the reader a little idea of her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Who feels injustice; who shrinks before a slight; who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then would you call injustice malignity? Plato. The Republic.
- God forbid, said Lucas Beaumanoir, that Jew or Pagan should impeach us of injustice! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Again the old question returns upon us: Is justice or injustice the more profitable? Plato. The Republic.
- Now, in the South we have our poor, but there is not that terrible expression in their countenances of a sullen sense of injustice which I see here. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But in Spain it is done too lightly and often without true necessity and there is much quick injustice which, afterward, can never be repaired. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This tendency to exaggerate classification produces a thousand evils and injustices. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But everything in the Roman state was earlier, cruder, and clumsier; the injustices were more glaring, the conflicts harsher. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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