How To Use Unjustly In A Sentence

  • And, let's face it, as well, I think, at that time, I also was attracted to the notion of being a trial lawyer, a courtroom lawyer, going in and righting the wrongs and defending the unjustly accused.
  • Two reformed cracksmen are unjustly accused of the theft and are severely put to it to prove their innocence.
  • Gosh, I thought, unjustly as it turned out, I thought all these doggy people were more sporting than that.
  • We can have some Muslims who unjustly or ignorantly deny the illegality of drinking alcohol, eating pork or even committing major sins like stealing, fornicating... etc.
  • In the real world, men actually lack respect for justice, and often treat others unfairly and unjustly. Dr T.P.Chia 
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  • An arcane spell caster is unjustly accused of starting a devastating fire with a badly aimed (or miscast) spell.
  • And to suggest that Ireland, as a sovereign Republic, should not be entitled to lay down certain conditions for citizenship on the grounds that this might somehow be racist or unjustly discriminatory is pure poppycock.
  • Those, indeed, who rule for the public good, are true examples and specimens of his beneficence, while those who domineer unjustly and tyrannically are raised up by him to punish the people for their iniquity. The Volokh Conspiracy » Thoughts on the Revolution (?) in Kyrgyzstan
  • To none of these other forms, however, is attached the same degree of seriousness by the laity as they attach unjustly to nosophobia. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
  • She is an excellent and unjustly neglected author.
  • The unjustly convicted who refuses to show repentance for a murder he did not commit fails to meet the first requirement of any parole board. Times, Sunday Times
  • Parents were ashamed that never were ashamed before until the kind satirist laughed at them; relatives were frightened; scores of little scholars were taken away; poor schoolmasters had to shut their shops up; every pedagog was voted a Squeers, and many suffered, no doubt unjustly; but afterward, schoolboys’ backs were not so much caned; schoolboys’ meat was less tough and more plentiful; and schoolboys’ milk was not so sky-blue. On Charity and Humor
  • Start thinking of property as all the property of individuals, unjustly acquired property or unowned property. It’s Hard to Be an Anti-Zionist Jew « Antiwar.com Blog
  • We don't want to accuse anyone unjustly.
  • It's unfair to devalue anyone's work unjustly.
  • Since _The New York Times Book Review_ very unjustly raised a question of the authorship of "Derelict," it has been my privilege to read the really remarkable correspondence that has reached Mr. Allison from men all over the country who have been treasuring newspaper clippings of perverted versions of the poem out of pure admiration for its classical lines and the bold portrayal of a grewsome story. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
  • As we argue in this week's cover, the problem with populist rage — defined as the discernible public feeling that the few are unjustly profiting at the expense of the many — is that while it is cathartic, it can lead to bad decisions that may make the situation against which one is raging even worse. The Editor’s Desk
  • From farmers "mobbed" off their lands, to union organizers beaten, to anti-war protestors unjustly imprisoned, to "un-American activities" committees, to Civil Rights activists murdered -- America has traveled an almost-constant and continuing road of such struggles. Chris Weigant: A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial
  • She is an excellent and unjustly neglected author.
  • The only power source yet unconsidered, and the one that is unjustly vilified in the court of public opinion, is nuclear power.
  • Great artists mix with the unjustly neglected to form a smooth, cohesive whole. Times, Sunday Times
  • He stands upon a lower grade of the social step-ladder than the _claqueur_; very unjustly, as it appears to us, his scope for the display of original genius being decidedly larger. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
  • In the real world, men actually lack respect for justice, and often treat others unfairly and unjustly. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Given the philosophical attitude with which he approaches his art, it probably won't come as a surprise that the humble Alvin is one of those music legends who falls firmly in the unjustly uncelebrated category.
  • Here an intelligent, self-taught inmate, Jim, works as a file clerk, unjustly called a stoolie by his fellow prisoners although he strives to help them.
  • In the meantime, he paced up and down with a gun on his shoulder, pretending to be a sportsman -- happy in his hopes, happy in the clear sunshine, happy because he knew no better -- as happens to a great many other people in the gay days of their youth, in this most unjustly condemned and vilipended world. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
  • Agatho became Pope, St. Wilfred, Archbishop of York, who had been unjustly and uncanonically deposed from his see by Theodore of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • Neither did his frank and manly deportment, though indicating a total indifference to danger, bear the least resemblance to that of the bravoes or swashbucklers of the day, amongst whom Henry was sometimes unjustly ranked by those who imputed the frays in which he was so often engaged to a quarrelsome and violent temper, resting upon a consciousness of his personal strength and knowledge of his weapon. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • There are instances in which Mohammed behaved harshly and unjustly in his dealings with people and without mercy towards his enemies.
  • English commanders; a success which is sometimes tauntingly held up, in contrast with what is most unjustly termed the sluggishness of our own squadron. Journal of an African Cruiser
  • But we shall presently discover that, so far as pure physical type is concerned, he early began to generalise the structure of the body, passing finally into what may not unjustly be called a mannerism of form. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
  • The King was unjustly accused of practising the black arts.
  • We are asserting a legal claim in the name of people who were individually and collectively unjustly deprived of their assets. Times, Sunday Times
  • We fear to punish unjustly so we've taken the sword from the hand of justice and given her a wet noodle.
  • We are asserting a legal claim in the name of people who were individually and collectively unjustly deprived of their assets. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mate shouted to him in the full strength of his lungs to "Bear a hand and lay in off the yard," and unjustly berated him as a "lubber," while the poor fellow was tugging away, and working with might and main, to disengage his tail from the lift, in which he at length succeeded, but not without the aid of his jackknife. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
  • From farmers "mobbed" off their lands, to union organizers beaten, to anti-war protestors unjustly imprisoned, to "un-American activities" committees, to Civil Rights activists murdered -- American has traveled a long road of such struggles. Chris Weigant: A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial
  • Had this questionnaire been produced two years ago, before Museum Services were accused (no doubt unjustly) of backstairs negotiations, the questions would have been highly appropriate.
  • Some books have been unjustly censored, he argued, and many writers and booksellers were punished too severely when all that was required was the simple suppression of publication.
  • It was all that was necessary to get the idea across as her outstretched arm extended over to the stony wall, though which lay the path she came, her kindred, and a pair unjustly captive and awaiting some cruel fate.
  • In the real world, men actually lack respect for justice, and often treat others unfairly and unjustly. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Palamedes28 all his days on earth far outshone those of his own times in wisdom, and when slain unjustly, won from heaven a vengeance such as no other mortal man may boast of. 29 Yet died he not at their hands30 whom some suppose; else how could the one of them have been accounted all but best, and the other a compeer of the good? On Hunting
  • I hope the Committee will not act so unjustly as to turn their backs on all cases because there is 'rascality' in some; because there is rascality in some cases, why should a just cause suffer? Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap
  • This occurrence has been not unjustly termed the culminating point of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • We are asserting a legal claim in the name of people who were individually and collectively unjustly deprived of their assets. Times, Sunday Times
  • She believed the rumor and blamed her friend unjustly.
  • _vin de liqueur_, but which few people wish to drink constantly; and which at its worst, or even in mediocre condition, is very poor tipple -- "shilpit," as Peter Peebles most unjustly characterises sherry in _Redgauntlet_. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
  • Many persons unjustly speak of Froude as having violated the confidence of his friends in publishing the letters of Mr. and Famous Affinities of History — Volume 4
  • He believes himself unjustly persecuted and discriminated against.
  • The Communists dutifully echoed his admission, disclosing that even loyal Vietminh veterans had been unjustly tried and executed.
  • Andrew Jackson, the first president from the western frontier, was unjustly accused of bigamy and derided as an unschooled ignoramus.
  • He had a strong sense of justice: I recall his fury about one poor man who was being unjustly accused of indecent exposure because he had stumbled undressed from bed to close his curtains.
  • Covetousness is not only in getting riches unjustly, but in loving them inordinately, which is a key that opens the door to all sin. The Lord's Prayer
  • Great artists mix with the unjustly neglected to form a smooth, cohesive whole. Times, Sunday Times
  • My mother too is dead, and I am called her murderess, unjustly it is true, but still that injustice is mine to bear; and she that was the glory of my house, my darling child, is growing old and grey, unwedded still; and those twin brethren, called the sons of Zeus, are now no more. Helen
  • We are asserting a legal claim in the name of people who were individually and collectively unjustly deprived of their assets. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because of his actions 46 people were imprisoned unjustly and lost their freedom for more than three years.
  • A man awakens to find himself in poverty instead of in wealth; his possessions suddenly swept away; or from health, he, or some one whose life is still dearer to him than his own, prostrated with illness; or to find himself unjustly accused or maligned, or misunderstood, or to encounter some other of the myriad phases of what he calls misfortune and tribulation. The Life Radiant
  • His claim to be an important and unjustly neglected painter is sheer self-deception - he's no good at all.
  • We do so because we recognise that unjustly taking another's property is immoral.
  • Hearing Beatrix get ticked off (unjustly) one day, Rosamund is chilled by the tone of Ivy’s voice: ‘She didn’t raise it, not at all. The Rain Before It Falls « Tales from the Reading Room
  • _All magistrates, who have been_ unjustly turned out, shall _forthwith resume their former_ employments; as well as all the boroughs of England shall return again to _their ancient prescriptions and charters_, and, more particularly, that _the ancient_ charter of the great and famous city of London shall again be in force; and that the writs for the members of Parliament shall be addressed to the _proper officers, according to law and custom_. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)
  • We are asserting a legal claim in the name of people who were individually and collectively unjustly deprived of their assets. Times, Sunday Times
  • He later learns that he was framed and unjustly imprisoned.
  • She was unjustly accused of stealing money and then given the sack.
  • Whether justly or unjustly acquired, various forms of wealth can become our master, shaping and filling our lives in a godlike manner.
  • In the unlikely event that the police do find that a vehicle has been unjustly impounded by one of their members and they return the vehicle, who will pay the towage and storage costs?
  • I was trying to speak up on behalf of the unjustly stigmatized, but I was treated as if I were some kind of soft-headed spam lover.
  • We need afederal law that any time someone is kept off the ballot and it is later determined by a Federal agency that is was done unjustly, the state has to pay several million dollars in restitution. Ballot Access News
  • His claim to be an important and unjustly neglected painter is sheer self-deception - he's no good at all.
  • One fella on the bus seemed particularly pleased with himself and not unjustly the crowd called him a johnny.
  • Trumped-up charges of conspiracy to overthrow the queen, and an unjustly conducted prosecution, brought conviction of treason and hanging at Tyburn.
  • In such a situation no individual is any longer penalized and none is unjustly enriched.
  • He is leading an initiative to rewrite school books which he says unjustly glorify the partisans who struggled against fascism during World War Two.
  • If someone thinks a vehicle has been taken unjustly, he or she has to apply to the police.
  • It has also made him a target for those who believe that they have been unjustly treated as a result of the courts' reliance on his testimony.
  • (UPDATE: Missed at first the Angel bit about souls in jars — it was a double shoutout to both his unjustly canceled shows …) Dollhouse « Gerry Canavan
  • Because of his actions 46 people were imprisoned unjustly and lost their freedom for more than three years.
  • The hospital of St. Leonard's has compelled us unjustly to render them a thrave of corn. The Last of the Barons — Volume 06
  • Islam does condemn in the strongest terms the beliefs and the practices of the polytheists and the idol worshippers, but it nowhere permits a Muslim to deal arrogantly or unjustly with them.
  • Great artists mix with the unjustly neglected to form a smooth, cohesive whole. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dispossess unlawfully or unjustly; oust. emercement (amercement) The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference
  • The heroine's honour is unjustly impugned, but her alleged crime is such a peccadillo that the emotions associated with it seem ludicrously overblown.
  • Now even the law is finding itself vulnerable to the all-pervasive power of the internet - and this is bad news, not just for royalty, but for any innocent person who finds himself unjustly accused.
  • I believe the Icelandic people are willing and able to undergo hardship to help our country recover from the catastrophic collapse, as long as the hardship is spread throughout the population, and those who unjustly profited from their decisions are put in their place. Iris Erlingsdottir: Iceland Is Simmering
  • Second, they'd imply that Chalabi had been unjustly maligned or demonized by opponents with other agendas to pursue.
  • If you would not mind, a crew manifest would expedite the release of any unjustly imprisoned.
  • She was unjustly imprisoned without trial.
  • If the capture is al Qaeda, then he would have to be self deluding to believe that he was being held "unjustly. Balkinization
  • For the face of the Colonel was hard and stern as a block of bogwood oak; and though the men might pity me and think me unjustly executed, yet they must obey their orders, or themselves be put to death. Lorna Doone
  • Vampyre Update kare11.com :: KARE 11 TV - News Article Girlfriend of 'vampyre' gubernatorial candidate is fired: The partner of the new gubernatorial candidate, Jonathon 'The Impaler' Sharkey, says she's been unjustly fired from her job. Archive 2006-01-15
  • Please be assured that I will not tolerate myself, or my hard-working co-workers to be unjustly aspersed.
  • he was unjustly singled out for punishment
  • Your faux tears for the unjustly imprisoned and lack of concern for the unjustly murdered is to me absolutely criminal. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Sixth Now the “Most Reversed” Circuit?
  • _angaria_, _angariare_, in medieval Latin, and the rare English derivatives "angariate," "angariation," came to mean any service which was forcibly or unjustly demanded, and oppression in general. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • We are asserting a legal claim in the name of people who were individually and collectively unjustly deprived of their assets. Times, Sunday Times
  • The buck-passer forgoes simple rules of ethics, letting someone else unjustly suffer the consequences, usually shifting the blame for what went wrong on to someone less powerful than he. Living with the Passive—Aggressive Man

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