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as in inequity
the state of being unfair or unjust
the injustice of the coach's accusation that I'd been lazy frustrated and angered me
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as in wrong
unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this
a group that has long suffered injustice at the hands of our judicial system
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Recent Examples of injustice
Anything short of strict legal adherence is a gross injustice.
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Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
Lamarck, who in later life would often express his feelings of grievance against the injustices his colleagues inflicted on him, also had a quick and keen sense of obligation.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Caddo Parish has long been a center of racial injustice, known from the Reconstruction era through the Jim Crow period as Bloody Caddo for having among the highest numbers of lynchings of any county in the country.
—Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026
Activists like Adaka Boro in the 1960s and Ken Saro-Wiwa in the 1990s forced the world to see the region’s lack of resource control and its environmental injustice.
—Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
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Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
Lamarck, who in later life would often express his feelings of grievance against the injustices his colleagues inflicted on him, also had a quick and keen sense of obligation.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Caddo Parish has long been a center of racial injustice, known from the Reconstruction era through the Jim Crow period as Bloody Caddo for having among the highest numbers of lynchings of any county in the country.
—Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026
Activists like Adaka Boro in the 1960s and Ken Saro-Wiwa in the 1990s forced the world to see the region’s lack of resource control and its environmental injustice.
—Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for injustice
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The Mental Health Parity Collaborative is a group of newsrooms that are covering stories on mental health care access and inequities in the United States.—
Julia Haney,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2026
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In 2023, one in five births were to a mother who received inadequate prenatal care, according to the report, with Hispanic and Black mothers facing the highest inequities.—
Briah Lumpkins,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Mar. 2026
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Their circumstances summon them to address some wrong or seize some opportunity.—
David Brooks,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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Larded throughout this scene is that unmistakable suggestion, yet again, that the play exists because its playwright needed — if not to right a cosmic wrong — to create a place to house or expiate his grief.—
Rhoda Feng,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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But the pandemic also exposed the grotesque unfairness of our economy and society in deeply personal ways, cutting across the red-blue divide.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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Beyond that, there is the wider issue of inter-generational unfairness.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
1 Mar. 2026
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Authorities are working to identify the owner of a dog that entered a Midlothian home and attacked a 1‑year‑old child and an adult, leaving them bloodied and the child hospitalized with severe injuries.—
Doug Myers,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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But the real loss is the latest injury.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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Cyrus said, with the two characters throwing insults at each other constantly.—
Kirsten Chuba,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Mar. 2026
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Droves of supporters commended a thoughtful gesture that, elsewhere on the internet, went over like an insult.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Injustice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/injustice. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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