How to Use unjust in a Sentence

unjust

adjective

• The convict received an unjust sentence.
• There are a lot of things that are going on that are unjust.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023
• The world appears to be both unjust and to owe us something.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2022
• In the 60s, some psychedelics users hoped to change an unjust world in a radical way.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• Ian Fishback saw the world as cleaved between the just and unjust, the exemplary and the erring.
  — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
• Oregon State peaking right as it gets kicked to the curb feels unjust.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
• Our public lands have many kinds of unjust place names.
  — Bonnie McGill, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2022
• Much of the rest of Europe has slowly come around — at least to the idea that an unjust peace deal is no deal at all.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• The student groups call the suspensions and bans unjust.
  — Gabriella Borter, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2023
• Like Winston and John, Antigone has opposed an unjust state and will pay a price for it.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2022
• Where the accused is placed above the law, there is an unjust system of justice.
  — Lewis R. Gordon, The Conversation, 12 Apr. 2021
• The just man is happier than the unjust man, even when he is being tortured on the rack.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• Sometimes, that chasm feels unfair, an unjust result of one or two plays gone the wrong way.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2023
• Women will become ungovernable as these unjust laws begin to be the law of the land in states across the country.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2022
• The students' actions and persistence led the school to agree that the selection was unjust.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 11 June 2021
• The movie is a classic story about the little guy standing up against an unjust system.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2023
• Alma Lopez, one of the eight women that form Mujeres Con Poder, said that the current process to install a speed bump is unjust.
  — Christian Robles, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2021
• Marks called the move an unjust and unfair double standard.
  — Richard Fowler, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as the war in Vietnam.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 25 Aug. 2021
• Stranger still, the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled five years ago that the way these men were convicted was unjust, and abolished it.
  — Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• This is an unjust and unstable structure, which will fall over.
  — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 20 Nov. 2021
• When laws are unjust, when custom constricts, when institutions squeeze and shrink you, here, at last, is space to breathe and to be.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• And what the arbiter says goes—there is no appeal if the decision is unjust or the proceedings unfair.
  — Cheri Bustos, ELLE, 12 Aug. 2022
• As the victim in this case, Mr. Henley has once again been victimized by this unjust outcome.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2024
• Diaz’s lawyers said the lower award was unjust and opted for a new trial on damages.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2022
• Outside the courthouse on Friday, friends and family members of the men who died said the verdict was unjust.
  — CBS News, 20 Nov. 2021
• That judge sued us for libel and his colleagues ruled against us in his favor in unjust proceedings.
  — Efim Marmer, WSJ, 18 May 2022
• Still, to impose such a hard line in Catholic schools, of all places, seems particularly unjust.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• For many of the startup employees, founders, and investors who put in the work and took the risks necessary for the generative AI sector to take off, the sting of the market correction will be unjust and brutal.
  — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2024
• Over the last decade, however, advocates have encouraged undocumented workers to denounce the abuse or unjust treatment in their companies.
  — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024