INJUSTICE

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unjust act

Synonyms:

iniquity; injustice; shabbiness; unfairness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("injustice" is a kind of...):

actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The practice of being unjust or unfair

Synonyms:

injustice; unjustness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("injustice" is a kind of...):

unrighteousness (failure to adhere to moral principles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "injustice"):

inequity; unfairness (injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards)

wrong; wrongfulness (that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law)

Antonym:

justice (the quality of being just or fair)

Credits

Context examples:

John is above such meanness, and I won't listen to you a minute if you talk so, cried Meg indignantly, forgetting everything but the injustice of the old lady's suspicions.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Weston's communications furnished Emma with more food for unpleasant reflection, by increasing her esteem and compassion, and her sense of past injustice towards Miss Fairfax.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The extravagance and general profligacy which he scrupled not to lay at Mr. Wickham's charge, exceedingly shocked her; the more so, as she could bring no proof of its injustice.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Look where he would, he seemed to see nothing but injustice and violence and the hardness of man to man.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You do yourself an injustice.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My poor Gennaro, in his wild and fiery days, when all the world seemed against him and his mind was driven half mad by the injustices of life, had joined a Neapolitan society, the Red Circle, which was allied to the old Carbonari.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I assured his honour, that the law was a science in which I had not much conversed, further than by employing advocates, in vain, upon some injustices that had been done me: however, I would give him all the satisfaction I was able.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There was another family living actually held for Edmund; but though this circumstance had made the arrangement somewhat easier to Sir Thomas's conscience, he could not but feel it to be an act of injustice, and he earnestly tried to impress his eldest son with the same conviction, in the hope of its producing a better effect than anything he had yet been able to say or do.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She was so wretched and so vehement, complained so much of injustice in being expected to go away instead of Anne; Anne, who was nothing to Louisa, while she was her sister, and had the best right to stay in Henrietta's stead!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Until tonight, I have had uninterrupted occasion to bless the day on which I did her great injustice.