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UNJUST
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception
Example:
took an unfair advantage
Synonyms:
unfair; unjust
Classified under:
Similar:
below the belt (disregarding the rules (from the notion of an illegal low blow in boxing))
cheating; dirty; foul; unsporting; unsportsmanlike (violating accepted standards or rules)
raw (brutally unfair or harsh)
Also:
unjust (violating principles of justice)
partial (showing favoritism)
Attribute:
equity; fairness (conformity with rules or standards)
Derivation:
unjustness (the practice of being unjust or unfair)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not equitable or fair
Example:
inequitable taxation
Synonyms:
inequitable; unjust
Classified under:
Derivation:
unjustness (the practice of being unjust or unfair)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Violating principles of justice
Example:
an unjust accusation
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
actionable (affording grounds for legal action)
wrongful (not just or fair)
Also:
unfair; unjust (not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception)
dishonorable; dishonourable (lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor)
wrong (contrary to conscience or morality or law)
unrighteous (not righteous)
Antonym:
just (used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting)
Derivation:
unjustness (the practice of being unjust or unfair)
Context examples:
Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive?
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I assure you, sir, that I simply concealed myself in order to see the effect of my disappearance, and I am sure that you would not be so unjust as to imagine that I would have allowed any harm to befall poor young Mr. McFarlane.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet I am certainly unjust.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He ought not to have formed the engagement.—'His father's disposition:'—he is unjust, however, to his father.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Do your best at college, and when he sees that you try to please him, I'm sure he won't be hard on you or unjust to you.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Pardon me, dear cousin, you are unjust in your own claims.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
“Miss Dartle,” I returned, “you are surely not so unjust as to condemn ME!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For their brother's sake, too, for the sake of his own heart, she rejoiced; and she reproached herself for being unjust to his merit before, in believing him incapable of generosity.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But I know the foundation is unjust.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
