unjust
part of speech
adjective (unjust; more unjust, most unjust)
meaning for a pupil
1) Unjust means not fair or not right, especially when someone is treated badly without a good reason. tree →
2) (law) An unjust law or punishment goes against fairness and people's rights. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Psalms and Proverbs, an unjust man is a deceitful, wicked person. The righteous pray to God to save them from him. Interpretation: Jewish law says judges must judge fairly and not twist justice. "Justice, justice shall you pursue" is the rule. In the primary lessons: Used in ethics lessons, history (unjust laws, slavery) and stories about wrongs being put right; phrases: «an unjust punishment», «unjust treatment», «it is unjust that…».
examples
- Be Thou my judge, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. (Writings PSA.43.1, JPS 1917) tree →
- An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; and he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked. (Writings PRO.29.27, JPS 1917) tree →
- It was unjust to blame Mia for the broken window. tree →
- The whole class was kept in, which felt unjust. tree →
- People marched against the unjust law. tree →
- The story is about a king who was cruel and unjust. tree →
- Martin Luther King spoke out against unjust treatment. tree →
- Is it unjust to punish everyone for one person's mistake? tree →
- He was so unjust and cruel that he won for himself the name of tyrant. tree →
note
Opposite: just (fair). Noun: injustice (not «unjustice»). Adverb: unjustly. Stronger and more formal than «unfair».
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «unjust» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.