INJUSTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does injustice mean? 

• INJUSTICE (noun)
  The noun INJUSTICE has 2 senses:

1. an unjust act

2. the practice of being unjust or unfair

  Familiarity information: INJUSTICE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INJUSTICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unjust act

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

iniquity; injustice; shabbiness; unfairness

Hypernyms ("injustice" is a kind of...):

actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The practice of being unjust or unfair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

injustice; unjustness

Hypernyms ("injustice" is a kind of...):

unrighteousness (failure to adhere to moral principles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "injustice"):

inequity; unfairness (injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards)

wrong; wrongfulness (that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law)

Antonym:

justice (the quality of being just or fair)

 Context examples 

Heaven forbid, Copperfield, he replied, that I should do any man an injustice: still less, Mr. Jorkins.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To him, Judge Scott was the keystone in the arch of injustice, and upon Judge Scott he emptied the vials of his wrath and hurled the threats of his revenge yet to come.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

‘It would be injustice to hesitate,’ said he. ‘You will, however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Watson, I have always done you an injustice.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Was there no injustice in this?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You did me an injustice, Ned, said my uncle, if you thought that I had forgotten you, or that I had judged you unkindly.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet he knew that he did them injustice.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You see, Miss Morland, the injustice of your suspicions.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Do not boast of it, however, said Elinor, for it is injustice in both of you.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)