injustice
part of speech
noun (injustice, injustices)
meaning for a pupil
1) Injustice is unfairness: a situation where people are not treated equally or are not given what they deserve. tree →
2) An injustice is a particular unfair act, such as punishing the wrong person. tree →
sense in the lessons
In ethics, history and RE lessons, pupils learn about injustices such as slavery, unequal rights and poverty, and people who fought injustice, like Martin Luther King. In stories, injustice drives the plot: the hero is wrongly blamed. Phrases: «a sense of injustice», «fight injustice», «a great injustice», «do someone an injustice» (judge them unfairly).
examples
- Martin Luther King fought against the injustice of racism. tree →
- It was an injustice to blame Tom for the broken window. tree →
- She felt a burning sense of injustice. tree →
- Slavery was a terrible injustice. tree →
- Many people work to end injustice in the world. tree →
- You do him an injustice: he is kinder than you think. tree →
- A Man once saw a ship go down with all its crew, and commented severely on the injustice of the gods. tree →
note
Can be uncountable (injustice in general) or countable (an injustice, injustices). Opposite: «justice». Adjective «unjust». The prophets in the Bible often spoke out against injustice to the poor.
In the corpora
- Prophets were messengers who spoke God's word: they warned kings and people about injustice and gave hope in hard times.
- Prophets were messengers who spoke God's word, warned against injustice and gave hope.
- Almost every tradition agrees that punishing the innocent is a serious injustice.
- Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
- Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «injustice» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.