Meaning of INJUSTICE
| Pronunciation: | | in'justis
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- [n] an unjust act
- [n] the practice of being unjust or unfair
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| | Synonyms: | | iniquity, unfairness, unjustness |
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| | Antonyms: | | justice, justness | | |
| | See Also: | | actus reus, inequity, misconduct, unfairness, unrighteousness, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, wrongfulness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*jus"tice\, n. [F. injustice, L. injustitia. See
{In-} not, and {Justice}, and cf. {Unjust}.]
1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of
another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness;
imposition.
If this people [the Athenians] resembled Nero in
their extravagance, much more did they resemble and
even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. --Burke.
2. An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong.
Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices
without being discovered, or at least without being
punished. --Swift.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstractionism, asymmetry, atrocity, bias, bigotry, breach, coloring, contrariety, crime, crime against humanity, damage, deadly sin, deformation, delinquency, dereliction, difference, discrimination, disequilibrium, disparity, disproportion, disservice, distortion, enormity, error, evil, exaggeration, expressionism, failure, false coloring, falsification, fault, favoritism, felony, garbling, genocide, great wrong, grievance, gross injustice, guilty act, harm, heavy sin, heterogeneity, hurt, hyperbole, imbalance, imposition, impropriety, inaccuracy, inadequacy, indiscretion, inequality, inequitableness, inequity, inexpiable sin, infraction, infringement, iniquity, injury, insufficiency, irregularity, lapse, litotes, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, malum, minor wrong, miscarriage of justice, mischief, miscoloring, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdrawing, misfeasance, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, mortal sin, nonfeasance, nonrealism, nonuniformity, odds, offense, omission, one-sidedness, outrage, overbalance, overdrawing, overstatement, partiality, partisanship, peccadillo, peccancy, perversion, prejudice, raw deal, ruin, shortcoming, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slanting, slip, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, twisting, unbalance, understatement, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unfairness, unjustness, unutterable sin, venial sin, villainy, violation, wrong, wrongdoing |
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