Injustice

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=jus=tice

CIDE DICTIONARY

Injustice, n. [F. injustice, L. injustitia. See In- not, and Justice, and cf. Unjust.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Injustice, n.
1 a lack of fairness or justice.
2 an unjust act.

Idiom

do a person an injustice judge a person unfairly.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L injustitia (as IN-(1), JUSTICE)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Injustice

n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Injustice

Wrong

N wrong, what ought not to be, what should not be, malum in se, unreasonableness, grievance, shame, injustice, tort, unfairness, iniquity, foul play, partiality, leaning, bias, favor, favoritism, nepotism, party spirit, partisanship, bigotry, undueness, wrongdoing (vice), unlawfulness, robbing Peter to pay Paul, the wolf and the lamb, vice, a custom more honored in the breach than the obser, wrong, wrongful, bad, too bad, unjust, unfair, inequitable, unequitable, unequal, partial, one-sided, injurious, tortious, objectionable, unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable, unjustifiable, improper, unfit, unjustified, illegal, iniquitous, immoral, in the wrong, in the wrong box, wrongly, it will not do.