Injustice

n.	1.	Lack 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.

Noun	1.	injustice - an unjust act Synonyms: iniquity, unfairness
	2.	injustice - the practice of being unjust or unfair Synonyms: unjustness Antonyms: justice, justness - the quality of being just or fair

INJUSTICE. That which is opposed to justice.
     2. It is either natural or civil. 1. Natural injustice is the act of doing harm to mankind, by violating natural rights. 2. Civil injustice, is the unlawful violation of civil rights.

abstractionism, asymmetry, atrocity, bias, bigotry, breach, coloring, contrariety, crime, crime against humanity, damage, deadly sin, deformation, delinquency, dereliction, difference, discrimination, disequilibrium, disparity, disproportion, disservice, distortion, enormity, error, evil, exaggeration, expressionism, failure, false coloring, falsification, fault, favoritism, felony, garbling, genocide, great wrong, gross injustice, guilty act, harm, heavy sin, heterogeneity, hurt, hyperbole, imbalance, imposition, impropriety, inaccuracy, inadequacy, indiscretion, inequality, inequitableness, inequity, inexpiable sin, infraction, infringement, injury, insufficiency, irregularity, lapse, litotes, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, malum, minor wrong, miscarriage of justice, mischief, miscoloring, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdrawing, misfeasance, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, mortal sin, nonfeasance, nonrealism, nonuniformity, odds, offense, omission, one-sidedness, outrage, overbalance, overdrawing, overstatement, partiality, partisanship, peccadillo, peccancy, perversion, prejudice, raw deal, ruin, shortcoming, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slanting, slip, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, twisting, unbalance, understatement, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unjustness, unutterable sin, venial sin, villainy, violation, wrongdoing

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