injustice
IPA: ɪndʒˈʌstɪs
noun
- Absence of justice; unjustice.
- Violation of the rights of another person or people.
- Unfairness; the state of not being fair or just.
- (humorous, derogatory) Justice (title of a justice of court), seen as being unjust.
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Examples of "injustice" in Sentences
- Should we seek to imitate what we term the injustice of
- I dipped my quill in ink and scratched the word injustice through one of the columns.
- Well, they've fallen foul of the Mallorings over what they call injustice to some laborers.
- She had been looking up files of old newspapers, and working herself up into a state of indignation with what she called the injustice and the hypocrisy of the prosecution.
- Minutes before a Chesterfield County judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison for strangling a former flight attendant-turned prostitute, the man who once aspired to be a police officer delivered a 10-minute rant on what he described as the injustice of his prosecution.
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