What's the difference between unjust and unwarrantable?

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.

Unwarrantable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that too many of these assumptions are in the latter two categories, which, from a Popperian viewpoint, render the hypothesis as a whole unwarrantable.
  • (2) "This not only unwarrantably and seriously infringed their privacy but was also gratuitously offensive, humiliating and demeaning," Ofcom said.
  • (3) Because of a 30% cytomegaly disease incidence rate in our patient population a randomisation was unwarrantable at the beginning of leukemia treatment.
  • (4) Simons, Muirhead & Burton, the legal firm that represented Bahari, complained to Ofcom that the he was "treated unfairly and that his privacy was unwarrantably infringed in the making and broadcast of the programme".