injustice, unfairness, iniquity, shabbiness
(noun) an unjust act
injustice, unjustness
(noun) the practice of being unjust or unfair
Source: WordNet® 3.1
injustice (countable and uncountable, plural injustices)
Absence of justice; unjustice.
Violation of the rights of another person or people.
Unfairness; the state of not being fair or just.
• Injustice and unjust use different prefixes, as French injustice was borrowed into English, while unjust was formed as un- + just. The spelling injust, from French injuste, is very rarely used, and unjustice, from un- + justice, is nonstandard.
• justicelessness
• unjustice (nonstandard)
• wrong
• wrength
Source: Wiktionary
In*jus"tice, n. Etym: [F. injustice, L. injustitia. See In- not, and Justice, and cf. Unjust.]
1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people [the Athenians] resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. Burke.
2. An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong. Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices without being discovered, or at least without being punished. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
