9 definitions found for injustice

Injustice INJUS'TICE, n. [L. injustitia; in and justitia,justice.]
1. Iniquity; wrong; any violation of another's rights, as fraud in contracts, or the withholding of what is due. It has a particular reference to an unequal distribution of rights, property or privileges among persons who have equal claims.
2. The withholding from another merited praise, or ascribing to him unmerited blame.

injustice n 1: an unjust act [syn: injustice, unfairness, iniquity, shabbiness] 2: the practice of being unjust or unfair [syn: injustice, unjustness] [ant: justice, justness]

injustice
n.
1 a lack of fairness or justice.
2 an unjust act.
Phrases and idioms:
do a person an injustice judge a person unfairly.
Etymology: ME f. OF f. L injustitia (as IN-(1), JUSTICE)

injustice (injustices) 1. Injustice is a lack of fairness in a situation. They'll continue to fight injustice... N-VAR 2. If you say that someone has done you an injustice, you mean that they have been unfair in the way that they have judged you or treated you. The article does them both an injustice. PHRASE: V inflects

injustice ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs n. 1 a lack of fairness or justice. 2 an unjust act. ødo a person an injustice judge a person unfairly. [ME f. OF f. L injustitia (as IN-(1), JUSTICE)]

Injustice In*jus"tice, n. [F. injustice, L. injustitia. See In- not, and Justice, and cf. Unjust.] 1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people [the Athenians] resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. --Burke. 2. An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong. Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices without being discovered, or at least without being punished. --Swift.

injustice n. 1. Unfairness, unjust or inequitable nature or character. 2. Wrong, grievance, piece of injustice.

injustice ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs n. 1 unfairness, favouritism, discrimination, bias, inequality, partiality, partisanship, prejudice, bigotry, one-sidedness, unjustness, inequity: Class privilege has always condoned injustice. 2 wrong, injury: You do me an injustice if you think me capable of dishonesty.

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