UNJUSTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unjustly mean? 

• UNJUSTLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNJUSTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an unjust manner

  Familiarity information: UNJUSTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNJUSTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an unjust manner

Context example:

he was unjustly singled out for punishment

Antonym:

justly (with honesty)

Pertainym:

unjust (violating principles of justice)

 Context examples 

She weeps continually, and accuses herself unjustly as the cause of his death; her words pierce my heart.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was obliged to confess one thing, which for a time, and not unjustly, offended him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But I feel this, Helen; I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At last, I fixed upon a resolution, for which it is probable I may incur some censure, and not unjustly; for I confess I owe the preserving of mine eyes, and consequently my liberty, to my own great rashness and want of experience; because, if I had then known the nature of princes and ministers, which I have since observed in many other courts, and their methods of treating criminals less obnoxious than myself, I should, with great alacrity and readiness, have submitted to so easy a punishment.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When she remembered the style of his address, she was still full of indignation; but when she considered how unjustly she had condemned and upbraided him, her anger was turned against herself; and his disappointed feelings became the object of compassion.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

This afternoon, instead of dreaming of Deepden, I was wondering how a man who wished to do right could act so unjustly and unwisely as Charles the First sometimes did; and I thought what a pity it was that, with his integrity and conscientiousness, he could see no farther than the prerogatives of the crown.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)