What's the difference between unjust and unkind?

Unjust


Definition:

  • (a.) Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.
  • (a.) Contrary to justice and right; prompted by a spirit of injustice; wrongful; as, an unjust sentence; an unjust demand; an unjust accusation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I did so in protest at using unethical ways to make unjust allegations, therefore I hereby withdraw my complaint against this artist."
  • (2) Ukraine will do everything it can to free these unjustly accused people,” said Vitaly Moskalenko, Ukraine’s consul general in Rostov-on-Don, who was present at the Sentsov hearing.
  • (3) This is not just socially unjust, it is also bad for our economy.
  • (4) reveals, it is a result of the unjust politics that shape our economy, including the pursuit of growth at any cost and the fact that women’s voices continue to be silenced and ignored.
  • (5) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
  • (6) Every day looked after children and care leavers face unfair and unjust discrimination.
  • (7) Agnes Poirier went to meet Claude Lanzmann, the 88-year-old director of Holocaust documentary Shoah, who has a new film, Last of the Unjust , which is screening out of competition.
  • (8) We now need to weigh up both urban and suburban qualities, and take proper account of complaints from critical urbanists about socially unjust, sanitised, privatised, uni-cultural and anti-social developments.
  • (9) This is one of the forms of "Kümmel-Verneuil syndrome, a clinical entity which has been unjustly neglected for 30 years.
  • (10) I tend to differ: it is perverse, and it is unjust.
  • (11) "People feel the murder of Mark was very unjust," he said.
  • (12) UK Uncut's previous sit-ins and occupations in the branches of tax dodgers have proved very effective in highlighting the unjust practices of big business."
  • (13) "For centuries unjust laws banned marriage between blacks and whites or Indians and Europeans.
  • (14) Translated, this means demanding just taxation policies from America to divert attention from your wholesale restructure of the Australian economy to protect unjust taxation policies at home.
  • (15) It appears that I am now being unjustly victimized again.
  • (16) The zero-hours contracts – of which there are now 1.4 million in the active workforce – remain a flashpoint, even if they are by no means the most unjust requirement made by the Department for Work and Pensions (they are not as bad as mandatory work activity, for instance).
  • (17) A few months after Timothy Jackson was put away for life, a Louisiana appeals court reviewed the case and found it “excessive”, “inappropriate” and “a prime example of an unjust result”.
  • (18) The Guardian view on the criminal courts charge: unjust, ineffective and mean-spirited | Editorial Read more Gove indicated his distaste for the charge, saying it was a “cause for concern”.
  • (19) The spur to the public debate on the death penalty stemmed from a trilogy of miscarriages of justice In 1950, Timothy Evans was unjustly hanged on the evidence of a neighbour, John Christie, who was subsequently convicted of murder, in a house they shared in west London.
  • (20) They chanted, “Justice for Tamir!” “We will not accept any excuse why this young man was shot down unjustly,” said Art McKoy, a Cleveland community activist at the demonstration.

Unkind


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no race or kindred; childless.
  • (a.) Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural.
  • (a.) Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
  • (2) You know, I don't mean to be unkind but I think you should put your phone down because you're just being a dick, really, just enjoy the gig because it's a better … it's a dick job, filming the show.
  • (3) Somehow, British zoos still enjoy a protected, deeply forgiving space, in a nation of pet lovers, for manifest unkindness towards animals.
  • (4) Mottling of teeth can have significant psychological impact on patients--particularly on adolescents, who may be subjected to much unkind teasing.
  • (5) This agenda might unkindly be described as systematic anti-liberalism with a seasoning of resentment and paranoia.
  • (6) The place to go in parliament for unkind evaluations of Miliband’s legacy is the Labour benches.
  • (7) But sometimes the revelations come fast, and when they do, they are usually particularly unkind.
  • (8) But clearly results have been immeasurably more crushing and unkind than I could ever have feared.
  • (9) I'd forgotten quite how swathey it was, rather unkindly imagining literary novelists and Big Thinkers in stripped-pine north London would be over-represented.
  • (10) And while Özil is allowed to have a poor game, it is hard to block out the memory of those unkind whispers on his departure from Madrid about his conditioning and stamina.
  • (11) Irony Steven Friedman , director of Rhodes and Johannesburg universities, said: "It has to be said that one of the great ironies of the debates about how we should receive Barack Obama is that, while a lot of South Africans are very sympathetic to him because he's the first African-American president, "I don't think that it's unkind to say that he's done absolutely nothing for this continent.
  • (12) I got to know him quite well after that and never once did I see him being unkind or inconsiderate to people.
  • (13) The academic Steve Bruce once unkindly stated: "When Ulster Protestants talk about being British, it is clear that the Britain they have in mind is no more recent than the 1950s, and often their points of reference are positively Victorian."
  • (14) Unkind though it is to remind him of his own cruel witticism aimed at Gordon Brown when he was at his weakest, there is now more than something of Mr Bean about Dr Cable.
  • (15) If modern life is unkind to our mental health, it’s no doubt in part because so many young people fear that admission of vulnerability will affect their employment, or their relationships, at a time when their futures are already far less clear than those of their parents.
  • (16) The results of this study lend weight to the argument that those who wish to have their facial abnormalities reduced may be accurately reporting that society is unkind to them.
  • (17) History tends to be unkind to those who embrace the evil practices of those they once denounced.
  • (18) Ruben Loftus-Cheek provided the visitors’ second, sliding a pass through the centre for Oscar to collect before McFadzean was aware of his presence, the finish crisply clipped into the far corner from an unkind angle.
  • (19) The crime also inspired a Bollywood film – on which MacKeown was never consulted, but later said “was not unkind” in its depiction of her daughter.
  • (20) On Thursday, as one SNP fundraising leaflet unkindly but accurately put it, the party has a chance to “complete the set”, making it the dominant force in all areas of Scotland’s political life.