unjust

[ US /ənˈdʒəst/ ]
[ UK /ʌnd‍ʒˈʌst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception
    it was an unfair trial
    took an unfair advantage
    used unfair methods
  2. not equitable or fair
    inequitable taxation
    the inequitable division of wealth
  3. violating principles of justice
    unjust punishment
    an unjust judge
    an unjust accusation
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How To Use unjust In A Sentence

  • How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
  • Civilisation as we know it today can only lead to an increasingly unjust, and inequitable, distribution of power across the globe.
  • I believe that we will be judged on this record and not by unkind and unjustified personal remarks in the press.
  • Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defamation: and though something still hung upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her. Cecilia
  • His domestic policy is unjust, inhumane, fiscally irresponsible, and amazingly uninformed.
  • Chief among the grievances I identify as providing primary justifying grounds for secession are these: persistent and serious violations of individual human rights and past unredressed unjust seizure of territory.
  • Why would we want to proceed with a course of action that is unjust, unwise and completely unnecessary?
  • It is unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate wealth.
  • (It is a geekly penchant to do things from scratch, but then this is not always unjustified.) Planet RDF
  • It is time to end this unjust system. Times, Sunday Times
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