injustice

plural injustices

1. countableuncountableAbsence of justice; unjustice.
2. countableuncountableViolation of the rights of another person or people.

   Silence in the face of gross injustice, or support for it, or even active involvement therein, comes at a price.

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   I was not just the President of Southern Americans or white Americans. I was the President of all Americans. I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States. I did not think that our nation could endure much longer as a viable democracy if that injustice were allowed to continue.

   1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39

   The movie delivers a critical and analytical 'unfolding of the circumstances of Reality [Winner]’s life, starting with her childhood in Texas, in order to reveal her sense of deceptions and injustices that pass largely unchallenged in everyday American life.

   2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker

3. countableuncountableUnfairness; the state of not being fair or just.

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   The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.

   2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport

plural Injustices

1. derogatoryhumorousJustice (title of a justice of court), seen as being unjust.

   Tell Chief Injustice Rehnquist to shove it right up his activist, goose-stepping, shriveled up ass.

   2002 March 1, CUE - CARD BUSH, “Chief Justice Rehnquist requests Indian woman take off head-wrap”, in alt.politics (Usenet)

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   We want now to build toward electing enough progressive populist reform Congressmen and senators that we can lead to the impeachment of the illegitimate Bush and Cheney and the Three Chief Injustices of the Supreme Kangaroo Court, Herr Rhinequest and his lap dogs, Scalia and Thomas.

   2000 December 15, pn...@takiweb.com, “[RHETORIC] You don't lick 'em by joining 'em”, in alt.thebird (Usenet)

   In my view, the tenure of the thirty-seventh Chief Injustice of India Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan, also known as K. G. Balakrishnan, which lasted from January 14 2007 and ended on May 12 2010, was the darkest age in the history of Justice and Jurisprudence in India.

   2010 December 29, and/or www.mantra.com/jai, “Chief Injustice of India K. G. Balakrishnan in Sonia-stricken Bharat - V. Sundaram”, in alt.politics (Usenet)