injustice
- nounADJECTIVE▪ grave, great, gross, terrible▪ perceived▪ economic, environmental, historical, political, racial, socialVERB + 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
▪ stopPREPOSITION▪ 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
