injustice

injustice
noun
ADJECTIVE
grave, great, gross, terrible
perceived
economic, environmental, historical, political, racial, social
VERB + INJUSTICE
experience, suffer

He suffered the injustice of being punished for a crime which he did not commit.

regard sth as

The trial was regarded as the greatest injustice of the post-war criminal justice system.

cause (law), commit, do (sb/yourself)

She remains adamant that an injustice was done.

We may have been doing him an injustice. This work is good.

expose

a novel that sets out to expose social injustice

see

They see the injustice and want to help.

fight, fight against, protest (AmE), protest against, speak out against, struggle against

She was acclaimed for speaking out against injustice.

correct, rectify, redress, remedy

people who work hard to correct society's injustices

stop
PREPOSITION
injustice by

a terrible injustice by the police

injustice to

It would be an injustice to the man to imprison him for life.

PHRASES
the injustice of it all

She was overwhelmed by the injustice of it all (= of the situation).

a sense of injustice, a victim of injustice

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  • injustice — [ ɛ̃ʒystis ] n. f. • XIIe; lat. injustitia 1 ♦ Caractère d une personne, d une chose injuste; manque de justice. ⇒ iniquité. L injustice des hommes. L injustice d une sentence. ⇒ partialité. « La puissance ne se montre que si l on en use avec… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Injustice — • The violation of another s strict right against his reasonable will, and the value of the word right is determined to be the moral power of having or doing or exacting something in support or furtherance of one s own advantage Catholic… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • injustice — injustice, injury, wrong, grievance are comparable when they denote an act that inflicts undeserved damage, loss, or hardship on a person. Injustice is the general term applicable not only to an act which involves unfairness to another or a… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • injustice — Injustice. s. f. Habitude, ou action contraire à la justice. L injustice regnoit en ce siecle là. il a fait une grande injustice. commettre des injustices. son procedé est plein d injustice …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Injustice — In*jus tice, n. [F. injustice, L. injustitia. See {In } not, and {Justice}, and cf. {Unjust}.] 1. Lack of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. [1913 Webster] If this people… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • injustice — in·jus·tice n 1: absence of justice: violation of what is considered right and just or of the rights of another 2: an unjust act Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • injustice — late 14c., from O.Fr. injustice, from L. injustitia injustice, from injustus unjust, wrongful, oppressive, from in not (see IN (Cf. in ) (1)) + justus just (see JUST (Cf. just) (adj.)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Injustice — is the lack of or opposition to justice, either in reference to a particular event or act, or as a larger status quo.The term generally refers to the misuse, abuse, neglect, or malfeasance of a justice system, with regard to a particular case or… …   Wikipedia

  • injustice — [n] unfair treatment; bias abuse, breach, crime, crying shame*, damage, dirty deal*, discrimination, encroachment, favoritism, grievance, inequality, inequity, infraction, infringement, iniquity, malfeasance, malpractice, maltreatment,… …   New thesaurus

  • injustice — Injustice, Iniustitia, Pseudodica …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • injustice — ► NOUN 1) lack of justice. 2) an unjust act or occurrence …   English terms dictionary

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