How to Use unjust in a Sentence

unjust

adjective

• The convict received an unjust sentence.
• There are a lot of things that are going on that are unjust.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023
• The world appears to be both unjust and to owe us something.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2022
• Oregon State peaking right as it gets kicked to the curb feels unjust.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
• Our public lands have many kinds of unjust place names.
  — Bonnie McGill, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2022
• Much of the rest of Europe has slowly come around — at least to the idea that an unjust peace deal is no deal at all.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• The student groups call the suspensions and bans unjust.
  — Gabriella Borter, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2023
• Like Winston and John, Antigone has opposed an unjust state and will pay a price for it.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2022
• The just man is happier than the unjust man, even when he is being tortured on the rack.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• Sometimes, that chasm feels unfair, an unjust result of one or two plays gone the wrong way.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2023
• Women will become ungovernable as these unjust laws begin to be the law of the land in states across the country.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2022
• The movie is a classic story about the little guy standing up against an unjust system.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2023
• Marks called the move an unjust and unfair double standard.
  — Richard Fowler, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Stranger still, the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled five years ago that the way these men were convicted was unjust, and abolished it.
  — Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• When laws are unjust, when custom constricts, when institutions squeeze and shrink you, here, at last, is space to breathe and to be.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• And what the arbiter says goes—there is no appeal if the decision is unjust or the proceedings unfair.
  — Cheri Bustos, ELLE, 12 Aug. 2022
• As the victim in this case, Mr. Henley has once again been victimized by this unjust outcome.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2024
• Diaz’s lawyers said the lower award was unjust and opted for a new trial on damages.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2022
• That judge sued us for libel and his colleagues ruled against us in his favor in unjust proceedings.
  — Efim Marmer, WSJ, 18 May 2022
• Still, to impose such a hard line in Catholic schools, of all places, seems particularly unjust.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• Councilman Jack Burrell said the finger-pointing at the city is unjust.
  — al, 29 June 2022
• These are the 25 true snubs and unjust losses that Times film critics, columnists, writers and editors still can’t get over.
  — The New York Times Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• Some view the strike as an important statement about their way of life, and others say the union has gone too far and is promoting an unwinnable, and to some unjust, fight.
  — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Russia’s unjust invasion of Ukraine is a tragedy, and its stark consequences are being played out for the entire world.
  — Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022
• The Government of #Cuba must stop these unjust sentences for peaceful protests.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2022
• Critics say the charges are unjust and, at a bare minimum, excessive.
  — Bianca Fortis, ProPublica, 21 July 2022
• Nobody was disagreeing that apartheid was wrong or unjust.
  — Walter Frick, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2022
• For this reason, the Korematsu-Takai bill should be a no-brainer, because it is based on a historic event that many agree was unjust.
  — Lynda Lin Grigsby, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
• Those of us who have faced the menace of a border and bear the scars of crossing understand that state power is not indisputable and is often unjust.
  — Yangyang Cheng, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
• The complaint was amended to focus on contract, fraud and unjust enrichment claims.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024