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injust

injust adjective: unjust, unfair.

Adjective

injust (comparative more injust, superlative most injust)

  1. (dated, nonstandard, rare) Unjust, unfair.
    • And this also is as really true as the praecendent Narration (which the very Tyrants and cruel Murderers cannot deny without the stigma of a lye) that the Spaniards never received any injury from the Indians, but that they rather reverenced them as Persons descended from Heaven, until that they...1689, Bartolome de las Casas, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
    • And to declair thame selvis to be the generatioun of Sathan, who, from the begynnyng, hath bein ennemy to the treuth, and he that desyrith the same to be hyd frome the knowledge of men, thei putt a ball of brass in his mouth, to the end that he should nott geve confessioun of his fayth to the...1895, John Knox, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)

Forms of injust

comparativemore injust
superlativemost injust

Origin of injust

From Middle English injuste, from Old French injuste; equivalent to in- + just.

Questions about injust

What does injust mean?
Injust means unjust, unfair.
What part of speech is injust?
Injust is an adjective.

Words near injust in the dictionary

  1. injury potential
  2. injury potentials
  3. injury time
  4. injury-prone
  5. injurying
  6. injust
  7. injustice
  8. injustice collecting
  9. injustice collection
  10. injustice collections
  11. injustice collector

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