Injustice

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              If this people [the Athenians] resembled Nero in
              their extravagance, much more did they resemble and
              even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. --Burke.
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     2. An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong.
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              Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices
              without being discovered, or at least without being
              punished.                             --Swift.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  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.