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{
"term": "injustice",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the fact of a situation being unfair and of people not being treated equally; an unfair act or an example of unfair treatment",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We are committed to fighting against poverty and injustice."
},
{
"text": "a burning **sense of injustice**"
},
{
"text": "Social and political injustice seemed to be getting worse rather than better."
},
{
"text": "She was enraged at the injustice of the remark."
},
{
"text": "The report exposes the injustices of the system."
},
{
"text": "It would be an injustice to the man to imprison him for life."
},
{
"text": "She remains adamant that an injustice was done."
},
{
"text": "He was acclaimed for speaking out against injustice."
},
{
"text": "She was overwhelmed by the injustice of it all."
},
{
"text": "The trial was regarded as the greatest injustice of the post-war criminal justice system."
},
{
"text": "They see the injustice and want to help."
},
{
"text": "a novel that sets out to expose social injustice"
},
{
"text": "a terrible injustice by the police"
},
{
"text": "people who work hard to correct society's injustices"
},
{
"text": "I did not really see myself as a victim of injustice."
},
{
"text": "She felt a burning sense of injustice with regard to the situation."
},
{
"text": "The court decided that he certainly had suffered an injustice."
},
{
"text": "They were convinced that a grave injustice had been done."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["grave", "great", "gross"],
"verb + injustice": ["experience", "suffer", "regard something as"],
"preposition": ["injustice by", "injustice to"],
"phrases": [
"the injustice of it all",
"a sense of injustice",
"a victim of injustice"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to judge yourself/somebody unfairly",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We may have been doing him an injustice. This work is good."
},
{
"text": "Perhaps I'm doing you an injustice."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs/",
"audio": "in/injustice/injustice__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs/",
"audio": "in/injustice/injustice__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin injustitia, from in- ‘not’ + justus ‘just, right’."
}