noun
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the condition or practice of being unjust or unfair
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an unjust act
Other Word Forms
- superinjustice noun
Etymology
Origin of injustice
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin injūstitia; equivalent to in- 3 + justice
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Doesn’t such an injustice need to be righted as soon as possible?
And so here we are, staring at a world of injustice, which, according to Marcus Aurelius, “lies in what you aren’t doing, not only in what you are doing.”
From Salon
He spoke the language of “affordability” with a relentless rhetorical focus on the issue while offering something more profound to voters: permission to reinterpret disappointment as injustice.
He launches a passionate defence of preserving remembrances of the past, even if that past is "problematic" as a way of "ensuring public memory of its injustice".
From BBC
In a December 1904 message to Congress, Roosevelt disdained any “unmanly” inclination to a “peace of tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice.”
From Salon
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