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.
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If this people [the Athenians] resembled Nero in
their extravagance, much more did they resemble and
even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. --Burke.
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2. An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong.
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Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices
without being discovered, or at least without being
punished. --Swift.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
injustice
n 1: an unjust act [syn: unfairness, iniquity]
2: the practice of being unjust or unfair [syn: unjustness]
[ant: justice]
WordNet (r) 2.0
124 Moby Thesaurus words for "injustice":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others
and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the
back.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
iniquity, unfairness, unjustness
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