Unjust

Definition: Unjust

Unjust

Adjective

1. Not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage".

2. Violating principles of justice; "unjust punishment"; "an unjust judge"; "an unjust accusation".

3. Not equitable or fair; "the inequitable division of wealth"; "inequitable taxation".

4. Not righteous; "`unjust' is an archaic term for `unrighteous'".

Date "unjust" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Unjust

Synonyms: inequitable (adj), unfair (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: equitable (adj), fair (adj), just (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impiety	The wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate; sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one; children of darkness.
Wrong	Adjective: wrong, wrongful; bad, too bad; unjust, unfair; inequitable, unequitable; unequal, partial, one-sided; injurious, tortious.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Men still exercise unjust laws. (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; writing credit: Jules Verne; Earl Felton)
Lyrics	Turn out to be unjust so cruel (Fighter; performing artist: CHRISTINA AGUILERA)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	It Rains on the Just and on the Unjust (reference) Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations (reference) Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World (reference) The Just and the Unjust (reference) The Super-Rich: The Unjust New World of Global Capitalism (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Burke	Some decent, regulated pre-eminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolitic.
Edmund Burke	Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
H.l. Mencken	The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Man is unjust, God is just, and finally justice prevails.
Hosea Ballou	Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero	An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Oscar Wilde	Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
St. Augustine	Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Thomas Carlyle	If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	But let us suppose, that all the men of that community, being all members of the same body politic, may be taken to have joined in that unjust war wherein they are subdued, and so their lives are at the mercy of the conqueror. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	He had been used to think her unjust to Jane, and had now great pleasure in marking an improvement.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	There are no longer either just or unjust.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	For just and unjust, for saint and sinner alike, may this retreat be a memorable one.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	It were well, he said, to be there early, and anticipate certain indistinct but wholly unjust claims on the score of ground rent and fuel.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Moldova	Key constitutional principles include the establishment of supremacy of international law, market economy, private property, provisions against unjust expropriation, provisions against confiscation of property, and separation of power among government branches. (references)
Human Rights	Korea	He was then imprisoned for 6 more years (with trial) shortly after his release for claiming in a private conversation that his original imprisonment was unjust. (references)
	Poland	The law requires that disciplinary procedures be taken against those judges accused of violating judicial independence by issuing unjust verdicts between 1944 and 1989 at the request of the Communist authorities. (references)
Political Economy	Brazil	It takes 8 years to reach a definitive decision in the average case, a delay that the Supreme Court president considered unjust. (references)
	Uzbekistan	The Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman reported that it assisted hundreds of citizens in redressing human rights abuses, the majority of which involve allegedly unjust court decisions and claims of abuse of power by police; however, most of the successfully resolved cases were relatively minor. (references)
	Sudan	The following journalists arrested in 2000 remained in custody at year's end: Osman Mirghani, journalist for Al Rai Al-Aam who was arrested in August for an article criticizing government education policy; Alwola Burhi Kaidani, a journalist for Al-Rai Al Akhar, who was arrested in August for an "anti-government" article; and Kamal Hassan Bakheit, Chief Editor of Al Sahafa and four of the paper's journalists arrested and detained in March for publishing poetry calling on Egypt to rescue the country from "the unjust war" and writing an article supportive of the NDA. (references)
Worker Rights	Mali	These children are not protected by laws against unjust compensation, excessive hours, or capricious discharge. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	Those employed in the formal sector generally are protected against unjust compensation, excessive hours, and arbitrary discharge from employment. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. In the lines following, addressed to an Emperor in exile by Father Gassalasca Jape, the reverend poet appears to hint his sense of the improduence of turning about to face Retribution when it is talking exercise: What, what! Dom Pedro, you desire to go Back to Brazil to end your days in quiet? Why, what assurance have you 'twould be so? 'Tis not so long since you were in a riot, And your dear subjects showed a will to fly at Your throat and shake you like a rat. You know That empires are ungrateful; are you certain Republics are less handy to get hurt in?
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	A distribution to the people is impracticable and unjust in other respects.
James K. Polk	1845-1849	To tax one branch of this home industry for the benefit of another would be unjust.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	We must eliminate by law unjust discrimination in employment because of age.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Our commitment to fairness means that we must assure legal and economic equity for women, and eliminate, once and for all, all traces of unjust discrimination against women from the United States Code.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unjust" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unjust" is used about 390 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	390	14,213

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "unjust".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Evi	N/A	Biblical	Unjust
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "unjust": unjust decision ♦ you are being unjust. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "unjust"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pavend (Amiss, improper, inappropriate, indiscreet, inept, inopportune, irrelevant, off-key, preposterous, unbecoming, uncalled for, unfortunate, unplaced), i padrejtshëm, i padrejtë (foul, inequitable, iniquitous, injurious, inofficious, jug-handled, one sided, partial, unfair, wrong, wrongful). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير عادل (invidious, prejudiced, unjustifiable), ‏جائر (inequitable, iniquitous, oppressive, unfair, unworthy, wanton, wrongful), ‏ظالم (exploiter, inequitable, iniquitous, oppressive, tyrannous, unequal, unfair, wrongful). (various references)

Bulgarian		несправедлив (inequitable, iniquitous, one-legged, partial, raw, unfair, unrighteous, wrong, wrongful). (various references)

Catalan		injust (unfair). (various references)

Chinese		不公�" (INJUSTICE), 不公 (unfair). (various references)

Czech		nespravedlivý (inequitable, iniquitous, uncalled for, unfair, unrighteous, wrongful). (various references)

Danish		uretfærdig (unfair). (various references)

Dutch		onredelýk (unfair), onrechtvaardig (unfair). (various references)

Farsi		ناصحیح (Bad, Indecorous, Unsound, Wrong), ناروا (Illegitimate, Inadmissible, Inadvisable, Undue, Unduly), غیرمنصفانه (Horse, Inequitable, Unfair), غیرعادلانه (Unrighteous), ستمگر (Atrocious, Cruel, Despot, Dispiteous, Oppressor, Tyrannous, Tyrant), بی عدالت , بی انصاف (Unfair). (various references)

Finnish		vääryydellinen (wrongful), väärämielinen (unrighteous), epäoikeudenmukainen (unfair, wrongful). (various references)

French		injuste (unfair). (various references)

German		ungerecht (inequitable, iniquitous, invidious, unfair, unfairly, unjustly, wrong, wrongful), unbillig (inequitable, inequitably, unfair, unreasonable). (various references)

Greek		άδικοσ (inequitable, inequitous, underserved, undue, unfair, unmerited, unrighteous, wrong, wrongful). (various references)

Hebrew		לא צו�"ק (inequitable, invidious, unfair, wrong, wrongful). (various references)

Hungarian		igazságtalan (criticaster, one-sided, stiff, unfair, wrongful, wrongous). (various references)

Indonesian		tak adil. (various references)

Italian		ingiusto (unfair, wrongful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		非�" (inhuman). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひどう (inhuman). (various references)

Korean		횡도한. (various references)

Manx		neulowal (disallow, unfit, unfit unjust). (various references)

Papiamen		inhusto (unfair). (various references)

Pig Latin		ustunjay

Polish		niesprawiedliwy (unfair). (various references)

Portuguese		perverso (cantankerous, damnable, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill-conditioned, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, perverse, sinful, unnatural, unrighteous, vicious, vile, villainous, viperous, wicked), mau (bad, bum, dark, evil, graceless, ill, ill-conditioned, ill-favored, ill-favoured, malignant, mischievous, miserable, nasty, perverse, poor, punk, sinful, two-bit, unrighteous, venomous, vicious, vile, villainous, wrong), injusto (cammed, causeless, inequitable, one-sided, partial, uncharitable, unconscionable, undeserved, undue, unfair, unrighteous, wrong, wrongful), iníquo (nefarious, unrighteous), improbo (unrighteous). (various references)

Romanian		nedrept (foully, iniquitous, injurious, inofficious, perverse, undue, unfair, unlawful, wicked, wrong, wrongful), injust (injurious, unfair), greşit (abroad, Amiss, astray, awry, bad, badly, erroneous, erroneously, fallacious, false, faultily, faulty, incorrect, misled, mistaken, out of square, perverse, spurious, unfair, unlawful, vicious, wrong, wrongheaded). (various references)

Russian		несправедливый (inequitable, iniquitous, jug-handled, unfair, unrighteous, wrongful). (various references)

Scottish		eucorach (an unjust person, See <A HREF="mf05.html#eucoir">eucoir</A>, wrong doer), claon-bhreith (prejudice, unjust judgment). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepravičan (unfair), nepravedan (inequitable, shabby, unfair, unrighteous, wrongful). (various references)

Spanish		injusto (hard, inequitable, iniquitous, invidious, monstrous, one sided, unfair, unrighteous, wrong, wrongful). (various references)

Swedish		orättfärdig (inequitable, iniquitous, unfair, unrighteous, wrong, wrongful), orättvis (foul, inequitable, iniquitous, invidious, unfair). (various references)

Turkish		insafsız (confiscatory, cutthroat, fell, heartless, inequitable, inhumane, iniquitous, merciless, relentless, ruthless, unconscientious, unconscionable, unfair, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, wrongful), haksız (false, gratuitous, ill gotten, inequitable, iniquitous, insupportable, invidious, raw, tortious, uncalled for, undeserved, unearned, unequal, unfair, unjustified, unmerited, unrighteous, unwarranted, wrong, wrongful), adaletsiz (inequitable, iniquitous, unrighteous). (various references)

Turkmen		ynsapsyz (unconscious, unfair). (various references)

Ukrainian		несправедливий (inequitable, iniquitous, injurious, one sided, unfair, unrighteous, wrong), невірний (disloyal, unfaithful, untrue). (various references)

Vietnamese		trái lẽ (unrighteous), sai (false, inaccurate, untrue, wrong, wrongly), không chính đáng không đúng, bất chính (unlawful), bất công phi lý. (various references)

Welsh		anunion (crooked, indirect), anghyfiawn (unrighteous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	iniqua, iniquae, iniquam, iniquas, inique, iniqui, iniquis, iniquissimas, iniquius, iniquo, iniquorum, iniquos, iniquum, iniquus, iniuria, iniuriae, iniuriam, iniurias, iniuriis, iniusta, iniustae, iniustam, iniuste, iniusti, iniustis, iniustorum, iniustos, iniustum, iniustus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 18, Verse 6
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Eipen de o kurioV akousate ti o krithV thV adikiaV legei
Latin	405	Vulgate	Ait autem Dominus audite quid iudex iniquitatis dicit
Old English	990	West Saxon	þa cwæð drihten: gehyrað hwæt se unrihtwisa dema cwyð;
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And the Lord seide, Here ye, what the domesman of wickidnesse seith;
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And the lorde sayd: heare what the vnrightewes Iudge sayeth.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And the Lord said, Give ear to the words of the evil judge.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Luke Chapter 18, Verse 6
Cebuano	Ug ang Ginoo miingon, "Patalinghugi ninyo ang giingon sa dili matarung nga maghuhukom.
Croatian	Nato reèe Gospodin: "Èujte što govori nepravedni sudac!
Danish	Men Herren sagde: "Hører, hvad den uretfærdige Dommer siger!
Dutch	En de Heere zeide: Hoort, wat de onrechtvaardige rechter zegt.
Finnish	Niin Herra sanoi: "Kuulkaa, mitä tuo väärä tuomari sanoo!
French	Le Seigneur ajouta: Entendez ce que dit le juge inique.
German	Da sprach der HERR: Höret hier, was der ungerechte Richter sagt!
Haitian Creole	Jezi di: Nou tande sa move jij la di!
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Lalu Tuhan berkata, "Perhatikanlah apa yang dikatakan oleh hakim yang tidak adil itu!
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka kata Yesus, "Dengarlah apa yang dikatakan oleh hakim yang lalim itu!
Latvian	Bet Kungs sacîja: Klausieties, ko netaisnais tiesnesis saka!
Maori	Ka mea te Ariki, Whakarongo ki ta te kaiwhakawa kino i mea ra.
Norwegian	Og Herren sa: Hør hvad den urettferdige dommer sier!
Portuguese	Prosseguiu o Senhor: Ouvi o que diz esse juiz injusto.
Rumanian	Domnul a adqogat: ,Auziyi ce zice judecqtrul nedrept?
Shuar	Nuyá uunt Jesus Tímiayi "Shuaran akupin yajauchiitiat nuna timiai.
Spanish	Entonces dijo el Señor: "Oíd lo que dice el juez injusto.
Swahili	Basi, Bwana akaendelea kusema, "Sikieni jinsi alivyosema huyo hakimu mbaya.
Swedish	Och Herren tillade: "Hören vad den orättfärdige domaren här säger.
Uma	Oti toe, na'uli' Pue' Yesus: "Pe'epei-koi napa to na'uli' topobotuhi toei. Nau' uma monoa' nono-na, dota moto-i mpotulungi tobalu to ntora mperapii' -i.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unjust": unjustifiable, unjustifiably, unjustified, unjustly, unjustness, unjustnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unjust" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: injust, unjet, unjus, unus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unjust" (pronounced unju"st)
4	-j u" s t	adjust, just, readjust.
3	-u" s t	antitrust, bused, bussed, bust, Combust, crust, cussed, discussed, disgust, distrust, dust, encrust, entrust, fussed, gust, incrust, lust, mistrust, must, nonplussed, robust, rust, thrust, trust.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "j-n-s-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: just, juts, nuts, stun, tuns.
	-3 letters: jun, jus, jut, nus, nut, sun, tun, uns, uts.
	-4 letters: nu, un, us, ut.
	Words containing the letters "j-n-s-t-u-u"
	+2 letters: unjustly.
	+3 letters: junctures.
	+4 letters: unadjusted, unjustness.
	+5 letters: disjuncture, juggernauts, subjugating, subjugation, subjunction, subjunctive, unjustified.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 6A 75 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..- -. .--- ..- ... -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101010 01110101 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#106 &#117 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 006A 0075 0073 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
enrichment unjust	18
unjust	15
unjust law	11
lyrics unjust	3
just unjust war	3
unjust war	3
termination unjust	2
enrichment unjust virginia	2
cause unjust	2
traffic unjust violation	2
unjust dismissal	2
steward unjust	2
firing unjust	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Unjust

Definition: Unjust

Unjust

Adjective

Synonyms: Unjust

Synonyms within Context: Unjust

Impiety

Wrong

Crosswords: Unjust

Modern Usage: Unjust

Screenplays

Lyrics

Commercial Usage: Unjust

Books

Familiar Quotations: Unjust

Burke

Edmund Burke

H.l. Mencken

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hosea Ballou

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Oscar Wilde

St. Augustine

Thomas Carlyle

Historic Usage: Unjust

John Locke

Use in Literature: Unjust

Emma

Austen, Jane

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Unjust

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Unjust

Andrew Jackson

James K. Polk

Lyndon B. Johnson

Ronald Reagan

Usage Frequency: Unjust

Derived & Related Names: Unjust

Expressions: Unjust

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unjust

Modern Translation: Unjust

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