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unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this
life seemed to treat him with an unjustness that was immensely frustrating
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Noun
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The story does not flinch from the realities of segregation, including the violence that the family faced moving into white neighborhoods in Fort Worth in the 1950s, but there is more hope than fear, more faith in the power of righteousness to defeat injustice, in its pages.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026 -
There are many reasons for all of this, but the lasting burden of decade after decade after decade of injustice still makes shoulders ache.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2026
Noun
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Because, so far, my instincts are all dead wrong.—
Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal,
Parents,
18 June 2026
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The streamer got that one wrong.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
18 June 2026
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“Unjustness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unjustness. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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