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Definition: Injustice |
InjusticeNoun1. An unjust act. 2. The practice of being unjust or unfair. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "injustice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Injustice \In*jus"tice\, noun. [French expression injustice, from Latin expression injustitia. See In- not, and Justice, and compare to Unjust.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | 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. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: InjusticeSynonyms: iniquity (n), unfairness (n), unjustness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: justice (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Wrong | Injustice; tort; unfairness; Adjective: iniquity, foul play. |
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Crosswords: Injustice |
| English words defined with "injustice": aggrieved ♦ Charles Dickens, Charles John Huffam Dickens ♦ dickens, Direptitiously ♦ grievance ♦ inequity, injured ♦ passive, peaceful ♦ Unequity, unfair, unfairness, unjust, Unjustice. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "injustice": Burden ♦ Employee Grievances ♦ Independent, Ink-stand ♦ righteousness ♦ Wound. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "injustice": Unjustice. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Injustice" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (inequity, injustice, unfairness, unrighteousness, wrong, wrongfulness, wrongness). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) As long as there's injustice in the world, as long as scum like you is walking well, rolling the streets I'll be around (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I only distribute pigs to early risers, and Fern was up at daylight trying to rid the world of injustice. (Charlotte's Web; writing credit: E.B. White; Earl Hamner Jr.) The horror of war, injustice. If I have a religion, I guess my religion is my belief in the inherent good of all people and having faith in that belief (Stingray; writing credit: Gary DeVore; Jimmy Huston) Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the meaning of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space (Forbidden Planet; writing credit: Irving Block; Allen Adler) | |
Lyrics | To social injustice (Rhythm Nation; performing artist: Janet Jackson) And social injustice (Easy to Be Hard; performing artist: Three Dog Night) Who say they care about social injustice (Easy to Be Hard; performing artist: Three Dog Night) To the fight against poverty, war, and injustice. (The Folk Song Army; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) We all hate poverty, war, and injustice, (The Folk Song Army; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Charlene's Injustice (1969) The Injustice of Man (1911) Injustice (2001) | |
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 | The injustice of it. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Praise of dialectics : today injustice strides forth with a sure step ... and never becomes--even today!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fintan Lalor : "a revolutionist and rebel against all forms of political and social injustice" -- James Connolly. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A first step in the fight against hunger and injustice : fast for a world harvest, Nov. 17. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Canute "the Great" | I want no money raised by injustice. |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. |
Horace | Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. |
Hosea Ballou | Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. |
Junius | The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. |
Seneca | Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. |
Terence | The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. |
Voltaire | Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. |
William Ewart Gladstone | National injustice is the surest road to national downfall. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | The examples of particular injustice, or oppression of here and there an unfortunate man, moves them not. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Whereas the League of Nations has for its object the establishment of universal peace, and such a peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice; And whereas conditions of labour exist involving such injustice, hardship, and privation to large numbers of people as to produce unrest so great that the peace and harmony of the world are imperilled; and an improvement of those conditions is urgently required: as, for example, by the regulation of the hours of work, including the establishment of a maximum working day and week, the regulation of the labour supply, the prevention of unemployment, the provision of an adequate living wage, the protection of the worker against sickness, disease and injury arising out of his employment, the protection of children, young persons and women, provision for old age and injury, protection of the interests of workers when employed in countries other than their own recognition of the principle of freedom of association, the organisation of vocational and technical education and other measures; Whereas also the failure of any nation to adopt humane conditions of labour is an obstacle in the way of other nations which desire to improve the conditions in their own countries; The HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, moved by sentiments of justice and humanity as well as by the desire to secure the permanent peace of the world, agree to the following: CHAPTER l. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1927) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It would be sad injustice, the reader must understand, to represent all my excellent old friends as in their dotage |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He saw, with disquietude, shaken within him that species of frightful calm which the injustice of his fate had given him. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Togo | Although the Constitution nominally obliges the Government to aid persons with disabilities and shelter them from social injustice, the Government provides only limited assistance in practice. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Equatorial Guinea | This restriction had been put in place in previous years because of the Catholic Church's repeated criticisms of human rights violations, social injustice, and corruption in the country. (references) |
Human Rights | Uganda | Although once considered a useful innovation, the LC courts often are thought to be sources of injustice due to such factors as bribery and male dominance in rural areas. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries, but it appears to have been imperfectly expounded. An example of this faulty exposition is found in the only extant sermon of the pious Bishop Rowley, a characteristic passage from which is here given: "Now righteousness consisteth not merely in a holy state of mind, nor yet in performance of religious rites and obedience to the letter of the law. It is not enough that one be pious and just: one must see to it that others also are in the same state; and to this end compulsion is a proper means. Forasmuch as my injustice may work ill to another, so by his injustice may evil be wrought upon still another, the which it is as manifestly my duty to estop as to forestall mine own tort. Wherefore if I would be righteous I am bound to restrain my neighbor, by force if needful, in all those injurious enterprises from which, through a better disposition and by the help of Heaven, I do myself restrain." |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | The suspension of our foreign commerce, produced by the injustice of the belligerent powers and the consequent losses and sacrifices of our citizens are subjects of just concern. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This process need only be stated to show its injustice and bad policy. |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | To reverse this principle and make 'protection' the 'object' and 'revenue' the 'incident' would be to inflict manifest injustice upon all other than the protected interests. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | Encountering the race feeling against them, subjected at times to cruel injustice growing out of it, they may well have our profound sympathy and aid in the struggle they are making. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | We can not finance the country, we can not improve social conditions, through any system of injustice, even if we attempt to inflict it upon the rich. |
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| "Injustice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.82% of the time. "Injustice" is used about 590 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.82% | 583 | 10,863 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.51% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.34% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.34% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 590 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "injustice": a crying injustice ♦ blatant injustice ♦ crying injustice ♦ do an injustice ♦ do smb. an injustice ♦ glaring injustice ♦ gross injustice. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "injustice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | padrejtësi (inequity, iniquity, injury, wrong). (various references) | |
Arabic | حيف (wrong), غبن (inequity, injury, unfairness), عمل ظالم (oppression), جور (iniquity, oppression, tyranny, wrong), أذى (disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour, hardship, harm, hurst, injury, insult, lesion, mayhem, trauma, violence, wickedness, zenana), ظلم (abuse, aggrieve, darken, eclipse, extortion, gloom, grind, grow dark, inequality, inequity, iniquity, oppress, oppression, shadow, tyrannize, unfairness, wrong). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | несправедливост (grievance, inequity, injury, raw deal), неправда (abuse, iniquity, wrong). (various references) | |
Chinese | 冤枉 (bad luck, hatred), 冤 (to wrong), 不平 (grievance, indignant, resentful, unfairness, wrong), 不公" (unjust), 不公正 . (various references) | |
Czech | nespravedlnost (inequity, iniquity), křivda (grievance, wrong, wrongdoing). (various references) | |
Danish | uret. (various references) | |
Dutch | onrechtvaardigheid. (various references) | |
Farsi | ستم (Cruelty, Oppression, Tyranny), خطا (Error, Lapse, Miscue, Sin, Sinister, Slip, Transgression, Wrong), ظلم (Cruelty, Tyranny), بیداد (Cruelty, Oppression, Outcry), بی عدالتی , بی انصافی (Inequity, Iniquity). (various references) | |
Finnish | vääryys (crookedness, iniquity, wrong), epäoikeudenmukaisuus (unfairness). (various references) | |
French | injustice (inequity). (various references) | |
German | ungerechtigkeit (inequity, iniquitousness, unfairness, unjustness, unrighteousness, wrong, wrongfulness, wrongness). (various references) | |
Greek | αδικία (inequity, iniquitousness, iniquity, unfairness, unjustness, wrong doing, wrongfulness, wrongness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משפח (misjudgement, scab), קפוח (denial, deprivation, discrimination), עות", חמס (cruelty, oppression, rapine, violence), אי צ"ק (iniquity), רשעות (iniquity, malice, malignity, vice, viciousness, wickedness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | igazságtalanság (inequity, unfairness, wrong, wrong doing, wrongdoing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ketidakadilan (inequity). (various references) | |
Irish | éagóir. (various references) | |
Italian | ingiustizia (unfairness, wrong). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 歪み (bend, distortion, strain), 曲事 (calamity, crookedness, something disgusting, something not right, something out of the ordinary, something unhappy, something unpleasant, unlawfulness, wickedness), 失" (impropriety, unreasonableness), 不義理 (dishonesty, dishonor, ingratitude), 不義 (adultery, immorality, impropriety, misconduct, perfidy), 不法 (lawlessness), 不法 (illegality, lawlessness, unlawfulness), 不正 (dishonesty, illegality, impropriety, iniquity, irregularity, unfairness), 不" (impropriety, invalid, undeservedness, unfair, unreasonableness), 不公正 (unfairness), 不公平 (partiality, unfairness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しっとう (careless pitch, devitrification, impropriety, performing a surgical operation, unreasonableness), きょくじ (wickedness), ふぎり (dishonesty, dishonor, ingratitude), ふぎ (adultery, bring up a matter, bringing up or submitting for discussion, debate, discussion, immorality, impropriety, misconduct, perfidy), ふほう (illegality, lawlessness, news of a person's death, unlawfulness), ふせい (asymmetry, correction, dishonesty, illegality, impropriety, iniquity, irregular, irregularity, lack of uniformity, nature, negative properties, paternity, revision, transient life, unevenness, unfairness), ふ"うせい (unfairness), ふ"うへい (partiality, unfairness), ふとう (disparity, ice-free, impropriety, indomitableness, inequality, inflexible, invalid, nonparticipation, pier, tenacity, unbending, undeservedness, unfair, unreasonableness), ゆがみ (bend, distortion, strain). (various references) | |
Korean | 부 (Denial, Denying, Negation, Negative, no, wrong). (various references) | |
Manx | neuyeerys (iniquity, unfairness), meechairys (improbity, iniquity, unfairness), anleigh (anomaly, legal injury, partiality), anchiartys (incorrectness, inequality, unevenness), aggair (aggression, iniquity, injury, violation). (various references) | |
Norwegian | urettferdighet. (various references) | |
Papiamen | inhustisia. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | injusticeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | injustia (grievance, inequity). (various references) | |
Romanian | injustiţie, nedreptate (a private nuisance, breach of justice, grievance, harm, inequity, iniquitousness, iniquity, raw deal, unfairness, wrong, wrongness), nãpastã (blight, calamity, calumny, curse, disaster, offence, pest, plague, slander, wrong). (various references) | |
Russian | несправедливость (breach of justice, inequity, iniquity, piece of injustice, unfairness, unjustness, wrongfulness, wrongness). (various references) | |
Scottish | eucoir (injury, wrong), ana-cothrom (injury), éiceart (evil). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nepravda (harm, inequity, wrong, wrongdoing). (various references) | |
Spanish | injusticia (abusiveness, grievance, iniquity, miscarriage of justice, raw deal, unrighteousness, wrong, wrongfulness). (various references) | |
Swedish | oförrätt (hurt, injury, wrong), orättvisa (inequity, iniquity, wrong). (various references) | |
Thai | ความอยุติธรรม (iniquity). (various references) | |
Turkish | insafsızlık (inequity, inexorability, ruthlessness, unfairness), haksızlık (inequity, iniquity, invidiousness, raw deal, tort, unjustness, unrighteousness, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongness), adaletsizlik (an outrage upon justice, inequity, unjustness, unrighteousness). (various references) | |
Turkmen | adalatsyzlyk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | несправедливість (inequity, iniquity, prejudice). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự bất công việc bất công. (various references) | |
Welsh | anuniondeb (inequity), anundeb (iniquity), anghyfiawnder (inequity). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | iniquitas, iniuria, iniuriae, iniuriam, iniurias, iniuriis, iniustitia, iniustitiae, iniustitiam, iniustitias, iniustitiis, tortitudo. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | prejudicium, tortum. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 16, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Adikon de ouden hn en cersin mou euch de mou kaqara |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Facies mea intumuit a fletu et palpebrae meae caligaverunt |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean. |
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| Language | Job Chapter 16, Verse 17 |
| Albanian | megjithëse nuk ka asnjë dhunë në duart e mia, dhe lutja ime është e pastër. |
| Cebuano | ¶ Bisan wala sa akong mga kamot ang panglupig, Ug mahinlo ang akong pag-ampo. |
| Croatian | A nema nasilja na rukama mojim, molitva je moja bila uvijek èista. |
| Danish | skønt der ikke er Vold i min Hånd, og skønt min Bøn er ren! |
| Dutch | Daar toch geen wrevel in mijn handen is, en mijn gebed zuiver is. |
| Finnish | vaikkei ole vääryyttä minun käsissäni ja vaikka minun rukoukseni on puhdas. |
| French | Je n`ai pourtant commis aucune violence, Et ma prière fut toujours pure. |
| German | wiewohl kein Frevel in meiner Hand ist und mein Gebet ist rein. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Men, mwen konnen mwen pa fè ankenn moun mechanste. Mwen lapriyè Bondye ak tout kè m'. |
| Hungarian | Noha erõszakosság nem tapad kezemhez, és az én imádságom tiszta. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tapi aku tidak melakukan kekerasan; nyata tuluslah doaku kepada TUHAN. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Kendatilah, tiada juga ada barang aniaya lekat pada tanganku, dan sucilah selalu doaku. |
| Italian | Non c'è violenza nelle mie mani e pura è stata la mia preghiera. |
| Maori | ¶ Ahakoa kahore he tutu i oku ringa, a he ma taku inoi. |
| Norwegian | Og dog er det ingen urett i mine hender, og min bønn er ren. |
| Portuguese | embora não haja violência nas minhas maos, e seja pura a minha oração. |
| Rumanian | Totuw n`am fqcut nicio nelegiuire, wi rugqciunea mea totdeauna a fost curatq. |
| Russian | ТЙ ЧУЕН ФПН, ЮФП ОЕФ ИЙЭЕОЙС Ч ТХЛБИ НПЙИ, Й НПМЙФЧБ НПС ЮЙУФБ. |
| Swedish | Och detta, fastän våld ej finnes i mina händer, och fastän min bön är ren! |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "injustice": injustices. (additional references) | |
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"Injustice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: misjustice. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "injustice" (pronounced i'nju"stus) |
| 6 | -j u" s t u s | justice. |
| 5 | -u" s t u s | robustas. |
| 4 | -s t u s | armistice, asbestos, hostess, priestess. |
| 3 | -t u s | apparatus, apprentice, arthritis, berettas, bronchitis, cactus, calamitous, circuitous, countess, detritus, duplicitous, emeritus, encephalitis, eucalyptus, felicitous, fetus, fortuitous, gastritis, glottis, gratis, gratuitous, gravitas, hepatitis, hiatus, impetus, laryngitis, lattice, lettuce, Lotus, malpractice, margaritas, mastoiditis, meningitis, momentous, notice, osteoarthritis, portentous, poultice, precipitous, prophetess, prospectus, riotous, serendipitous, situs, solicitous, status, Stratus, tortoise, treatise, ubiquitous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-j-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cutinise, jesuitic, juiciest. | |
-2 letters: cuisine, incites, injects, justice, unities. | |
-3 letters: cities, cuties, cutins, iciest, incest, incise, incite, incuse, inject, insect, jesuit, juices, nicest, seniti, tenuis, tunics, unites, unties. | |
-4 letters: cents, centu, cesti, cines, cites, cutes, cutie, cutin, cutis, etuis, ictus, incus, inset, intis, juice, jutes, neist, nisei, nites, scent, scute, senti, since, stein, suint. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-j-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: injustices. | |
+2 letters: disjunctive, jocundities. | |
+3 letters: disjunctives. | |
+4 letters: conjugalities, disjunctively. | |
+5 letters: nonjusticiable, subjectivising, subjectivizing. | |
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