INJUSTICE


Meaning of INJUSTICE in English

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ grave , great , gross , terrible

▪ perceived

▪ economic , environmental , historical , political , racial , social

VERB + INJUSTICE

▪ experience , suffer

He suffered the ~ of being punished for a crime which he did not commit.

▪ regard sth as

The trial was regarded as the greatest ~ of the post-war criminal justice system.

▪ cause ( law ), commit , do (sb/yourself)

She remains adamant that an ~ was done.

We may have been doing him an ~. This work is good.

▪ expose

a novel that sets out to expose social ~

▪ see

They see the ~ and want to help.

▪ fight , fight against , protest ( AmE ), protest against , speak out against , struggle against

She was acclaimed for speaking out against ~.

▪ correct , rectify , redress , remedy

people who work hard to correct society's ~s

▪ stop

PREPOSITION

▪ ~ by

a terrible ~ by the police

▪ ~ to

It would be an ~ to the man to imprison him for life.

PHRASES

▪ the ~ of it all

She was overwhelmed by the ~ of it all (= of the situation) .

▪ a sense of ~ , a victim of ~

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