(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Refusing either to acquiesce in, or to rail at, Eliot's contempt for Jews, one strives to do justice to the many injustices Eliot does to Jews.
(2) What we do know is that we cannot and will not see this decision as a vote of no confidence, and that we will find a way to continue through our own passion and dedication to making theatre that represents the dispossessed, tells stories of the injustices of our world and changes lives.
(3) Everything that was, is more: brutality, injustice, poverty, anger; but also clarity, knowledge, understanding and, possibly, determination.
(4) No it’s an injustice and we can change it.” However, Farage was not pressed on the issue by the interviewing panel, who also asked him how he balanced his personal and public life.
(5) Shorten said while Hicks was “foolish to get caught up in the Afghanistan conflict” the court decision showed an injustice.
(6) Professor David Nutt, director of the neuropsychopharmacology unit at Imperial College, London, and former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs , said the report provided strong evidence "that the costs of the current punitive approaches to cannabis control are massively disproportionate to the harms of the drug, and shows that more sensible approaches would provide significant financial benefits to the UK as well as reducing social exclusion and injustice".
(7) Hallam told the hearing: “If legal aid is being refused to people such as this, I am satisfied that injustices will occur … Mothers in her situation should have proper and full access to the court with the assistance of legal advice.” Parents involved in custody battles are no longer eligible for legal aid following cuts imposed by the justice secretary Chris Grayling in April last year .
(8) MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal Read more Ennals’ son, Sir Paul Ennals, told the Guardian: “It was hardly surprising that the secret services establishment found them all [there were three Ennals brothers, Martin, David, and John] of interest throughout their lives – their careers focused upon defending the rights of minority groups, setting up organisations to combat injustice, founding the Anti-Apartheid Movement and speaking out for what they believed.” He added: “I don’t think such ideas and activities were extreme after the war, and they shouldn’t be now.” MI5 justified its targeting of individuals and organisations, including the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the National Council for Civil Liberties, and CND, on the grounds either that some individual members were members of the Communist party, or that the party was suspected of trying to infiltrate them.
(9) Julian Eisner, the acting headteacher at DFS, said the decision was a “gross injustice” and the school had been singled out for unfair treatment.
(10) Children want to be with their parents inspite of the injustice done to them.
(11) But let's abandon any complacency that such injustice could not happen again.
(12) A later speaker, Salah el-Ghazal, referred to Gaddafi's "humiliating" death, saying: "This is the humiliating end that God wanted to set as example for anyone who practices the worst forms of injustice … against their people," he said.
(13) Climate injustice is not at first glance a legal problem any more than climate change itself is: it is economic, political, scientific.
(14) This is a gross injustice and it has wrecked my life.
(15) He said the murder of their mother "was a grave injustice...I regret very much what happened".
(16) It was thought that that would definitely lead to a profound sense of grievance and injustice which the SNP would continue to exploit,” he explained.
(17) The pending deportation of Kimberly clearly illuminates the injustice that is being done and the human rights that they are being denied.” Alan Yuhas contributed reporting
(18) There is no doubt that it is getting tougher.” Sheng, whose book, Northern Girls, follows the lives of China’s oft-exploited female migrant workers, said she believed an author’s calling was to write about the problems of society: the “injustice, the inequality and the darkness”.
(19) but it is hard to imagine that they will unite the nation in the way they did in the past, for they have been bought at the cost of making Brazil's injustices starker than ever.
(20) The eviction of Oceti Sakowin from their treaty lands forces us to confront another foundational injustice, one rarely if ever discussed in contemporary politics – colonialism.
Just
Definition:
(a.) Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- said both of persons and things.
(a.) Not transgressing the requirement of truth and propriety; conformed to the truth of things, to reason, or to a proper standard; exact; normal; reasonable; regular; due; as, a just statement; a just inference.
(a.) Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge.
(adv.) Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.
(adv.) Closely; nearly; almost.
(adv.) Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late.