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单词 injustice
释义
injustice
(ɪndʒʌstɪs )
Word forms: injustices
1. variable noun
Injustice is a lack of fairness in a situation.
They'll continue to fight injustice.
They resented the injustices of the system.
Synonyms: unfairness, discrimination, prejudice, bias  
2. do an injustice phrase
If you say that someone has done you an injustice, you mean that they have been unfair in the way that they have judged you or treated you.
The article does them both an injustice.
Collocations:
feeling of injustice
The reaction wasn't good whatsoever but it came from the same feeling of injustice everyone had.
The Sun
The feeling of injustice was very strong.
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It has strengthened feelings of injustice among singletons and families unable to climb onto the housing ladder who believe that buy-to-let investors get preferential treatment from open-handed mortgage-lenders.
Times, Sunday Times
We can all explain and excuse everything we do, so if anyone criticises us we struggle to overcome our feelings of injustice, humiliation and resentment.
Times, Sunday Times
Local newspapers swept up feelings of injustice and foul play.
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obvious injustice
It doesn't wait for them to crystallise into obvious injustice.
Times, Sunday Times
We have a right to ask: what are they doing about this obvious injustice?
Times, Sunday Times
In this story a whole town fears speaking out on an obvious injustice out of fear that they would stand out believing nobody else could see what they saw.
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The latter had made a show of listening fairly to both sides and were now embarrassed by the obvious injustice done to a nominal friend and ally.
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We support reform of the law to protect obvious injustices.
Times, Sunday Times
past injustices
We need to revise the statutes, untouched since 1974, to allow for new prizes and rectify past injustices.
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We saw ourselves as equals, and the chip on the shoulder about past injustices was almost as good as gone, even then.
Times, Sunday Times
Bitterness, unforgiveness, or past injustices must never be allowed to taint their own eulogies.
Christianity Today
The council was awaiting the panel's advice 'on how the city can most effectively play a role in progressing equality and redressing past injustices', she said.
Times, Sunday Times
He also called for an honest facing up to past injustices.
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perceive injustice
This would suggest that when people perceive injustice they seek to restore justice.
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Throughout all the near-misses, perceived injustices and inevitable controversies there has been at least one reassuring constant.
Times, Sunday Times
Matches have frequently been lost not only because of bad calls, but because of bad attitudes to perceived injustices.
Times, Sunday Times
Years later, he still displays unease at the perceived injustice.
Times, Sunday Times
The secrecy of the deliber-ations, and the rules over shared prizes and posthumous awards, have left the history of the award strewn with perceived injustices.
Times, Sunday Times
sense of injustice
I don't know what's up with her these days.' His sense of injustice boiled over.
St. James, Ian FINAL RESORT (2002)
I have a deep sense of injustice that I am condemned to work to feed our incompetent public masters.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The sense of injustice continues through generations.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
His rage and sense of injustice continues to simmer below the surface.
The Sun (2009)
That West Ham will appeal the red card confirms their sense of injustice.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
social injustice
At 5ft, her head only just cleared the lectern, but she spoke truth to power about social injustice, enunciating in a dignified, rasping voice.
Times,Sunday Times
From this work he gained his profound understanding of social injustice as well of the law's potential for falling into hypocrisy.
Times, Sunday Times
A rebel at school, he gets his education from the streets and from the social injustice he sees all around him.
Times, Sunday Times
Social injustice becomes a more insistent theme with time.
The Times Literary Supplement
They formed a close bond, sharing a similar social background and a common belief in social injustice and building a fairer society.
Times,Sunday Times
structural injustice
Personal irresponsibility and structural injustice are intertwined.
Times, Sunday Times
In it, he proclaimed the necessity to stand up and fight against societal and structural injustice.
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Advocates of political ethics respond that while structural injustice should not be ignored, too much emphasis on structures neglects the human agents who are responsible for changing them.
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suffer injustice
To channel the taste for combat to help those who suffer injustice.
Times, Sunday Times
This time, they suffered injustice as well as indignity.
Times, Sunday Times
Most people thought he had suffered injustice.
Times,Sunday Times
I received thousands of letters from viewers who had suffered injustice, or were being crushed by the system.
Times, Sunday Times
He also helped workers who suffered injustice by preparing legal documentation for cases.
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systemic injustice
It's clear that systemic injustice infects many national institutions, the criminal justice system being but the lastest example.
Christianity Today
The rich and powerful among us still must redress systemic injustice, which denies the poor access to strategic resources and important opportunities.
Christianity Today
What will our contribution be in a society that continues to struggle with systemic injustice?
Christianity Today
Go see this movie if you have ever cried over the systemic injustice visited upon poor, honest families.
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terrible injustice
Clearly a terrible injustice had been done.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
At the time this seemed a terrible injustice; but Mum was, of course, right.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Its aim was to secure Europe against terrible injustices like the Holocaust.
The Sun (2011)
Translations:
Chinese: 不公平
Japanese: 不公平
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