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How to use injustice in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Injustice means absence of justice; unjustice. Example: “Silence in the face of gross injustice, or support for it, or even active involvement therein, comes at a price.”

Examples of injustice by meaning

nounViolation of the rights of another person or people.

  • Silence in the face of gross injustice, or support for it, or even active involvement therein, comes at a price.
  • I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States.1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39

nounUnfairness; the state of not being fair or just.

  • The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport

More sentences with injustice

  • He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.From the entry crusade
  • This rotten policy will create more injustice in this country.From the entry rotten
  • You doomscroll about all kinds of things including pandemics, racial injustice, natural disasters, wars, and political unrest.2020, Robert West, chapter 1, in Stop Doomscrolling: How to Break the Cycle to Relieve Stress, Decrease Anxiety, and Regain Your Life…. From the entry doomscroll
  • "As a black man you should want to speak out against police brutality and racial injustice.2018 September 19, Chauncey Alcorn, “Dak Prescott takes heat from Dallas Nine protester after Cowboys game arrests: "He's so wack"”, in Mic. From the entry wack
  • The injustice, she was thinking, the low-mindedness of people, to think Roger could do anything wrong.2013, Frances Crane, The Indigo Necklace, →ISBN. From the entry low-mindedness
  • “He’s motivated by an antitotalitarian drive, whether he sees injustice from the left or the right.2007 May 19, Elaine Sciolino, “Sarkozy’s Top Diplomat: Undiplomatic Opposite”, in New York Times. From the entry antitotalitarian
  • Tall, muscular, golden-skinned, he ranted bitterly about the injustice done to him pre-natally.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 62. From the entry prenatally
  • His was a bestial face, a face that bore the stamp of Nature's eternal injustice.1900 April, Willa Cather, “Eric Hermannson's Soul”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry bestial
  • And hearing marginalized people speak up can feel like injustice for those accustomed to their stories being the only ones told.2022 May 2, Ian D. Svetkey, “A White Man's Voice: The Role of the Privileged Actor”, in The Harvard Crimson, archived from the original on…. From the entry super straight
  • And Jamala is bewhining and bescreeching this event to remind all Europe and particularly Russia of this injustice.2016, Ukraine: Jamala will sing "1944" at Eurovision 2016. From the entry bewhine
  • It's the injustice of the whole thing that infuriates me.2014, Daniel P Mannix, Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others, eNet Press, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry thin as a yard of pump water
  • Educators must recognize the audiocentric assumptions and attitudes, the social problem, and the social injustices that the term audism describes.2013 May, Richard Clark Eckert, Amy June Rowley, “Audism: A Theory and Practice of Audiocentric Privilege”, in Humanity & Society, volume…. From the entry audiocentric
  • Victims of palpable injustice enjoy a moral authority that is likely to provide access to even busy players.2008, Philip B. Heymann, Living the Policy Process, page 121. From the entry moral authority
  • “A message centered around the lottery's injustice to the poor does not resonate with the voters,” the plan said.2007, Michael Nelson, John Lyman Mason, How the South Joined the Gambling Nation, page 149. From the entry antilottery
  • You ride in, rescue the fair damsel (Maartje), start massive fires and vanish — until the next perceived injustice.2006, Bob Onan, Taming Storm Surges: When Ecology, Engineering And Faith Meet. From the entry zorro
  • In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers.1980 July, Frank Herbert, “Dune Genesis”, in Omni, volume 2, number 10, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74, column 2; republished as Ultimate Guide To…. From the entry equal
  • "It proves the injustice of the whole system.1979 April 28, Tom Reeves, “Revere Sex Cases Resolved”, in Gay Community News, page 1. From the entry plea-bargain
  • But I may be doing her an injustice.1927 August, Leslie Hotson, “Pirates in Parchment”, in The Atlantic. From the entry wag hemp
  • They will note the injustice." "Not they," said Mailey.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry hopeless
  • An 85-year injustice has been rectified at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey with the corrected spelling of one of the greatest of all literary names.2024 September 26, Mark Brown, “Brontë sisters finally get their dots as names corrected at Westminster Abbey”, in Katharine Viner…. From the entry diaeresis
  • Sometimes the criticism is warranted: Twitter can be a place for marginalised voices to amplify or bring attention to an injustice they have suffered.2019 November 19, Brigid Delaney, “It's the era of the Twitter pile-on. Isn't there something healthier we can do with our rage?”, in The…. From the entry pile-on
  • On the other hand, Basque-related circles claim that official use of euskara as the institutional framework would right a democratic deficit and a social injustice.2015, Thomas Pierre, “Against the Ethnicisation of Regional Territorial Minorities: Contribution from the Basque Experience in France”, in…. From the entry bascophone
  • Mourinho, in fairness, focused on his team’s shortcomings rather than any misplaced sense of injustice and even called for Uefa to let Ibrahimovic off.2015 March 12, Daniel Taylor, “Chelsea out of Champions League after Thiago Silva sends 10-man PSG through on away goals”, in The Guardian…. From the entry in fairness
  • He often spoke of his methods as political, that he was fighting racial oppression and countering the injustice of the Drug War.2015 October 1, “Survival Tactics and Strategies of Methamphetamine-Using HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men in San Diego”, in PLOS…. From the entry hypercognized
  • Since Islam claims to be opposed to injustice, any law that upholds injustice is anti-Islamic — and if a law is anti-Islamic, it must change.2002, Hammed Shahidian, Women in Iran: Emerging voices in the women's movement, page 56. From the entry tamkin
  • But it would be an injustice to Québeckers to give non-Québeckers authority in a decision as to Québec independence or to deny authority to Québeckers.1997, David Copp, “Democracy and Communal Self-Determination”, in Robert McKim, Jeff McMahan, editors, The Morality of Nationalism, New…. From the entry Québecker
  • The injustice of "alphabetism" is, of course, a thorn in the Zitser side, and he playfully promises to assign the problem to "alphabetically neutral" aides.1983, George F. Will, The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions, page 134. From the entry alphabetism
  • The level of uncomfortability that Albert experiences in coming to terms with his past injustices slowly transforms him into a more reasonable and tolerant man.1982 December 4, Catherine Joseph, “Empowered into Enlightenment”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 14. From the entry uncomfortability
  • Other enemies, like the smaller weeds, he could overcome, but injustice, that quitch grass of life, was what stung him to fury.1917, Hiram Alfred Cody, chapter 5, in Under Sealed Orders, Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, page 47. From the entry quitchgrass
  • Encouraging rhetoric gets periodically wheeled out: the pledges to ease the burden on the “just about managing”; the promises to fight the “burning injustices” of social inequality.2018 October 28, “The Observer view on the budget and the decade of austerity”, in The Observer. From the entry premiership
  • Encouraging rhetoric gets periodically wheeled out: the pledges to ease the burden on the "just about managing"; the promises to fight the "burning injustices" of social inequality.2018 October 28, “The Observer view on the budget and the decade of austerity”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN…. From the entry dispatch box
  • Women, accustomed to shivering powerlessly at their desks, cried foul, but several male readers contended that a different sort of injustice was at play — wardrobe inequality.2015 August 4, Lela Moore, “Blame a Male-Biased Algorithm for the Temperature in Your Office? Readers Respond”, in The New York Times. From the entry powerlessly
  • American leaders found it difficult to attack Soviet injustices and demand equality and the rule of law worldwide when African Americans endured systematic segregation throughout much of the nation.2014, Cameron D. Lippard, Charles A. Gallagher, editors, Race and Racism in the United States. From the entry declaim
  • The PVF has been continually subjected to such severe geologic injustices that the World Geohealth Organization has called on the international community to put an end to the violence.2009, Jon Kramer, Julie Martinez, “Pinnacles National Monument”, in California Underground Adventures: A Guide to Caves, Mines and Lava…. From the entry decamillion
  • Likewise, Plato's Republic features a question-and-answer interplay between teacher and students as Socrates's "padawans" question him about justice and injustice, the nature of the Good, and the ideal government.2005, Judith Barad, “The Aspiring Jedi’s Handbook of Virtue”, in Kevin S. Decker, Jason T. Eberl, editors, Star Wars and Philosophy: More…. From the entry padawan
  • Above all, he would not tolerate the abominable injustice of the existence of untouchables, and nobody has been a more ardent champion of their outraged rights.1984, Ganga Ram Garg, World Perspectives on Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Concept Publishing Company, page 165. From the entry Arya
  • Rebuking me gently, a friend has remarked that these days I have been doing an injustice to Kathiawaris: I always describe them as men given to too much talking.1924, Mahatma Gandhi, May-Aug. 1924, page 170. From the entry Kathiawari

Meaning of injustice

  1. noun Absence of justice; unjustice.
  2. noun Violation of the rights of another person or people.
  3. noun Unfairness; the state of not being fair or just.

Full definition of injustice

Questions about injustice in a sentence

How do you use injustice in a sentence?
Injustice is used as a noun. For example: “Silence in the face of gross injustice, or support for it, or even active involvement therein, comes at a price.”
What is a short sentence with injustice?
“"It proves the injustice of the whole system.”
What does injustice mean?
Injustice means absence of justice; unjustice.

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