the fact of a situation being unfair and of people not being treated equally; an unfair act or an example of unfair treatmentfighting against poverty and injusticea burning sense of injusticesocial injusticeShe was enraged at the injustice of the remark.The report exposes the injustices of the system.oppositejusticeOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectivegrave,great,gross,…verb + injusticeexperience,suffer,regard something as,…prepositioninjustice by,injustice tophrasesthe injustice of it all,a sense of injustice,a victim of injustice,…Seefull entry
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from Latin injustitia, from in- ‘not’ + justus ‘just, right’.Extra examplesIt would be an injustice to the man to imprison him for life.She remains adamant that an injustice was done.She was acclaimed for speaking out against injustice.She was overwhelmed by the injustice of it all.The trial was regarded as the greatest injustice of the post-war criminal justice system.They see the injustice and want to help.a novel that sets out to expose social injusticea terrible injustice by the policepeople who work hard to correct society’s injusticesI did not really see myself as a victim of injustice.Perhaps I’m doing you an injustice.She felt a burning sense of injustice with regard to the situation.Social and political injustice seemed to be getting worse rather than better.The court decided that he certainly had suffered an injustice.They were convinced that a grave injustice had been done.We are committed to fighting against poverty and injustice.Idioms
