'Injustice' definitions:
Definition of 'injustice'
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noun
noun
Definition of 'Injustice'
From: GCIDE
- Injustice \In*jus"tice\, n. [F. injustice, L. injustitia. See In- not, and Justice, and cf. Unjust.]
- 1. Lack of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. [1913 Webster]
- If this people [the Athenians] resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong. [1913 Webster]
- Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices without being discovered, or at least without being punished. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'injustice'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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