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unjust English

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unjust

If something is unjust, it is not just or not fair. The king's law is unjust.

unjust

(= unfair) not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception used unfair methods it was an unfair trial took an unfair advantage violating principles of justice unjust punishment an unjust judge an unjust accusation (= inequitable) not equitable or fair the inequitable division of wealth inequitable taxation

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Simple sentences

The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.
This law is unjust.
Life is so unjust sometimes.
Sometimes, life is so unjust.
The king was unjust to the people.
The world is unjust.
Is the world unjust?
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.

Movie subtitles

No matter how much I can pretend not to notice unjust things and just keep going, but I can't just endure this.
The cruel and unjust.
You're being unjust.
I'm being unjust?
And that is why I won't vote on this unjust law.
My heart aches for Patsy. and what you infer, you're being very unjust.
Seems to blow on the just and the unjust alike.
Men still exercise unjust laws.
Oh, passing traitor. perjured and unjust!
How unjust!
Do you feel that the committee were unjust in their decision?
I saw the patience, the innocence, the apparent meekness with which the temporary survivors of Hiroshima adapted to a fate so unjust that the imagination, usually so fertile, is silent before it.
I've been convicted of violating an unjust law.
But, it's an unjust world.
If you'll allow me, I think you've been unjust.
Unjust?
He does, yet if he ventures into the world outside, he must accept its laws. If his punishment seems unjust there is a higher power who watches and avenges.
Sherry, I'm sorry for what I said just now. I'm afraid I was unjust.
Then, no matter how I decide, I am unjust.
And my poor little girl, confined to bed because of unjust treatment at court?
Allah can be unjust.
It's so unjust.
You hurt me, because you're being unjust to love and to the kiss, whis is the tenderest exchange in the world, lovely as a flower.
I object to that as being an unjust and irresponsible accusation.
He doesn't want her to be killed for an unjust reason, so he has to protect her.
Iron it straightly! No matter how much I can pretend not to notice unjust things and just keep going, but I can't just endure this.
My wife was unjust to you.
Oh, Henry, this is so unjust.
You are not unjust.
I thought it unjust that His Majesty didn't reward him. I said so.
Yes, when you're friendly with the one who's been unjust to me.
And this is unjust.
You feel life has been unjust to you?

News and current affairs

Democrats respond that such a one-sided approach would be economically harmful and socially unjust.
Criminal laws targeting all HIV carriers, however, are counter-productive and inherently unjust.
And the unjust allocation of resources, which has enriched so many politically well-connected individuals and families, has become more difficult to bear.
Common opinion suggests that this state of affairs is unjust.
Besides being unjust, this is deeply tragic.
To a people imbued with a deep sense of superior moral worth, historical achievement, and victimization by foreign powers, this state of affairs is unjust and unnatural.
Too often trade unions are seen as defending an unjust status quo, as complicit in maintaining gender and racial hierarchies, or else as being so politically self-interested that they injure the rest of society.
An unequal society cannot help but be an unjust society.
Such a dictatorship would damage Islam by associating Islam with unjust rule and creating enemies for Islam.
If remuneration is perceived as unjust, trust in the capitalist system will suffer.
There is nothing in Magna Carta that prevents the enactment and enforcement of unjust laws; but it does elevate the law above the ruler's will.
The message is that any peace agreement can only come at the expense of Palestinian rights. Facts on the ground will be understood as the ultimate arbiters, no matter how illegal and unjust they may be.
And such decisions may not be recognized as mistaken or unjust until later - consider Franklin Roosevelt's internment of Japanese-American citizens early in World War II.
But the wage disparity between men and women is more than unjust.
Such violence is unjust on its face because it suppresses and intimidates both body and spirit.
Acquiring government power through possession of capital--and converting it into unjust economic rents--must be curtailed.
The corollary to this is that institutions and even world orders--no matter how efficient and successful--must be reformed if they are unjust.
The political crisis - which originated with the calculation of national budget surcharges and rebates from the EU budget - stems from an institutional arbitrariness that seems unjust and fosters immense resentment.
In the eurozone, successive governments of all stripes have been bullied into implementing flawed and unjust policies demanded by Germany's government and imposed by the European Commission.
Russia considers the agreements from the 1990's unjust, based as they were on its weakness at the time, and it wants to revise them.

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