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# unjust

«unjust» in Mova's school dictionary: **not fair or not right, especially when someone is treated…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unjust/#m1)

2) (law) An unjust law or punishment goes against fairness and people's rights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unjust/#m2)

### sense in the 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

- It was unjust to blame Mia for the broken window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unjust/#x1)
- The whole class was kept in, which felt unjust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unjust/#x2)
- People marched against the unjust law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unjust/#x3)
- The story is about a king who was cruel and unjust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unjust/#x4)
- Martin Luther King spoke out against unjust treatment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unjust/#x5)
- Is it unjust to punish everyone for one person's mistake? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unjust/#x6)
- He was so unjust and cruel that he won for himself the name of tyrant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unjust/#x7)

### note

Opposite: just (fair). Noun: injustice (not «unjustice»). Adverb: unjustly. Stronger and more formal than «unfair».

### In the corpora

- [An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; and he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.859/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unjust» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unjust/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.