unjustly

comparative more unjustly · superlative most unjustly

1. In an unjust manner.

   unjustly punished

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   Nowe is iuſte iuſtice, ſo iotted out of iointe, / That ye here vniuſtely, ſtande at deniall, / To do me iuſtice, and wolde by power ryall: / Directe mine acquitall or condemnacion, / Euen as wyll in both: weith your acceptacion.

   1556, John Heywood, chapter 24, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: […] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 110

   I am satisfied that there are many convicts in this prison unprovenly or unjustly confined, and that should have relief.

   1881, Texas. Superintendent of State Penitentiaries, Report, page 155

   Synonyms: unfairly · Antonyms: fairly, justly