Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Violating principles of justice or fairness; unfair: "monstrously unjust and socially harmful” ( Anna Garlin Spencer).
- adj. Archaic Faithless; dishonest.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not just. Not acting or disposed to act according to law and justice; not upright.
- Contrary to justice and right; wrongful; unjustifiable.
- Dishonest; faithless; perfidious.
- Synonyms Inequitable, unfair, unrighteous. See righteous.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest.
- adj. Contrary to justice and right; prompted by a spirit of injustice; wrongful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception
- adj. violating principles of justice
- adj. not equitable or fair
Etymologies
- From un- + just. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Why, if she is displeased with you she must be unjust, _and is she ever unjust_?”
“One group, known as Occupy Black Friday, is urging shoppers to bypass chain stores in favor of small and local businesses, while another group, named Don't Occupy Walmart, is organizing a boycott of Walmart stores in protest of what it calls unjust and anti-union practices on the part of the retail giant.”
The Huffington Post: Occupy Wall Street Takes On Black Friday Amid Skepticism
“Gadhafi implored Obama to stop the NATO-led air campaign, which he called an "unjust war against a small people of a developing country.”
USA Today: Gadhafi, in letter, asks Obama to end air strikes
“As the polls closed, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Madrid's Puerta del Sol to protest what they call an unjust domination of the country's electoral politics by the two major parties and to warn of continued agitation against government austerity measures.”
The Wall Street Journal: Conservatives Ride Crisis to Victory in Spanish Vote
“In the letter, Gadhafi implored Obama to stop the NATO-led air campaign, which he called an "unjust war against a small people of a developing country.”
USA Today: Gadhafi, in letter, asks Obama to end air strikes
“Conservative, giving absolute loyalty to the mother country, and desirous of obeying her slightest dictate, yet he was so much more broad-minded than many of his party that he welcomed in his home even those admirers of his daughters who were determined to resist what they termed the unjust commands of the English Government.”
“Hours later, a deputy from Papandreou's party quit his seat in protest against what he called "unjust" steps.”
“In a rambling, three-page letter to Obama obtained by The Associated Press, Gadhafi implored Obama to stop the NATO-led air campaign, which he called an "unjust war against a small people of a developing country.”
“Gadhafi implores Obama to stop what he called an "unjust war against a small people of a developing country." h4 class="regseriflbl large"More related to this story Libya 'ready for political solution' but Gadhafi insists on staying”
“In a letter to Obama obtained by The Associated Press, Gadhafi implores Obama to stop what he called an "unjust war against a small people of a developing country.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘unjust’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
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Imbible Code ✞
Christian word branding; common English word-associatives connected to Bible terminology or scripture.
I also have a general Bible-word list.god, father, son, trinity, sacrament, knowledge, serpent, flood, evil, good, spirit, revelation and 118 more...
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EN - unverbs
Funnily, 'un-VERBs' are much less common as stand-alone units than in suffixed derivatives (unbelievable - but *unbelieve, unexpectedly - but *unexpect, uninsured - but *uninsure, etc.) Can you fin...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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Bible names
noah, almighty, cain, abel, father, mother, israel, king, sanctuary, spirit, psalm, blessing and 236 more...
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Too many wrongs
error, mistake, malfeasance, wrongness, incorrect, untrue, immoral, unjust, blunder, err, sin, bad
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