- the fact of a situation being unfair and of people not being treated equally; an unfair act or an example of unfair treatment
- We are committed to fighting against poverty and injustice.
- a burning sense of injustice
- Social and political injustice seemed to be getting worse rather than better.
- She was enraged at the injustice of the remark.
- The report exposes the injustices of the system.
Extra Examples- It would be an injustice to the man to imprison him for life.
- She remains adamant that an injustice was done.
- She was acclaimed for speaking out against injustice.
- She was overwhelmed by the injustice of it all.
- The trial was regarded as the greatest injustice of the post-war criminal justice system.
- They see the injustice and want to help.
- a novel that sets out to expose social injustice
- a terrible injustice by the police
- people who work hard to correct society's injustices
- I did not really see myself as a victim of injustice.
- She felt a burning sense of injustice with regard to the situation.
- The court decided that he certainly had suffered an injustice.
- They were convinced that a grave injustice had been done.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- grave
- great
- gross
- …
- experience
- suffer
- regard something as
- …
- injustice by
- injustice to
- the injustice of it all
- a sense of injustice
- a victim of injustice
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from Latin injustitia, from in- ‘not’ + justus ‘just, right’.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See injustice in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee injustice in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishdo yourself/somebody an injustice
- to judge yourself/somebody unfairly
- We may have been doing him an injustice. This work is good.
- Perhaps I'm doing you an injustice.
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