单词 | unjust |
释义 | unjust (ʌndʒʌst ) adjective If you describe an action, system, or law as unjust, you think that it treats a person or group badly in a way that they do not deserve. The attack on Charles was deeply unjust. He spent 25 years campaigning against racist and unjust immigration laws. Synonyms: unfair, prejudiced, biased, wrong unjustly adverb [usually ADVERB with verb] She was unjustly accused of stealing money and then given the sack. Collocations: unjust law Their connection was born of a determination to resist an unjust law. Christianity Today The blockades were 'just the consequence of the government's decision to persist with an unjust law,' he said. Times, Sunday Times Moderate abolitionists were faced with the immediate choice of defying what they believed to be an unjust law, or breaking with their own consciences and beliefs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Might there be something commendable, even heroic, about helping to enforce unjust laws for fear that to do otherwise would produce even worse results? The Times Literary Supplement Work to reform and revolutionise unjust laws and never accept the status quo. Times, Sunday Times The unjust system of taxation underlined huge disparities in wealth. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII (2002) It's a very unjust system but you have to work within it. Times, Sunday Times (2010) It's hypocrisy that is imposed on them by a ridiculous and unjust system. Times, Sunday Times (2010) This seems a grossly unjust system. Times, Sunday Times (2009) It is time to end this unjust system. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Translations: Chinese: 不公正的 Japanese: 不当な |
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