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Unjust   /əndʒˈəst/   Listen
Unjust

adjective
1.
Not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception.  Synonym: unfair.  "It was an unfair trial" , "Took an unfair advantage"
2.
Violating principles of justice.  "An unjust judge" , "An unjust accusation"
3.
Not equitable or fair.  Synonym: inequitable.  "Inequitable taxation"



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"Unjust" Quotes from Famous Books



... pour upon Constance, and in it she saw the lonely, yearning, ignorant child-wife as she really was. She also saw how unjust she herself had been, and pity and remorse laid ...
— The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives • Elizabeth Strong Worthington
... historians quote Thucydides with more confidence than they would quote the Gospels," the Athenian has exaggerated; he is one-sided, partial, misleading, dry, and surly. Other critics agree with Mahaffy that he has been unjust to Cleon, and has screened Nicias from blame that was his due ...
— Historical Essays • James Ford Rhodes
... thickly settled, and the Boardman titles though acknowledged valid, were it is said, confiscated by the Legislature of Massachusetts in favor of the actual occupants of the soil, as the shortest though unjust settlement of ...
— Log-book of Timothy Boardman • Samuel W Boardman
... confess before the pure candour of your heart that hitherto I have not respected it. I felt that I had a gift, but I had got into the habit of thinking that it was insignificant. Purely external causes are sufficient to make one unjust to oneself, suspicious, and morbidly sensitive. And as I realize now I have always had plenty of such causes. All my friends and relatives have always taken a condescending tone to my writing, and never ceased ...
— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov
... Antonio de Morga, auditor of this royal Audiencia, was appointed captain-general of this fleet, an appointment which highly displeased the old captains, because in their opinion they should have been considered. They thought it unjust that the auditors should take part in the affair, especially because it left only one auditor in the Audiencia. In the end, however, neither these nor other reasons sufficed to prevent his appointment. The general appointed as ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume XI, 1599-1602 • Various


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