as in unfair
not fair or deserved; not just
The convict received an unjust sentence.
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Recent Examples of unjust
Image In so many ways, Jan. 6 had become part of his brand — a brand in which an attack on the symbol of American democracy became a defense of that same democracy: a blow against political thugs and closet communists, deep-state plots and an unjust justice system.
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Dan Barry, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
These reactions show generalized anger over the lack of control people have over their economic lives, exemplified specifically on how health care is provided and paid for in our nation and how that unjust and inefficient system has been allowed, if not openly fostered, by government policy.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2024
Step Two: Trigger Mass Bitcoin Adoption For over a decade, the U.S. government has battled bitcoin – from the unjust withholding of approval to sell financial products, to the frontal attack on bitcoin-friendly banks by the Biden-Harris administration.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Yet for many others, the summer of ’65 presented a moment of reckoning: not about choosing acoustic or electric, but about responding to a brutal and unjust U.S. military escalation abroad.
—Nina Silber / Made By History, TIME, 25 Dec. 2024
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Dan Barry, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
These reactions show generalized anger over the lack of control people have over their economic lives, exemplified specifically on how health care is provided and paid for in our nation and how that unjust and inefficient system has been allowed, if not openly fostered, by government policy.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2024
Step Two: Trigger Mass Bitcoin Adoption For over a decade, the U.S. government has battled bitcoin – from the unjust withholding of approval to sell financial products, to the frontal attack on bitcoin-friendly banks by the Biden-Harris administration.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Yet for many others, the summer of ’65 presented a moment of reckoning: not about choosing acoustic or electric, but about responding to a brutal and unjust U.S. military escalation abroad.
—Nina Silber / Made By History, TIME, 25 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unjust
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For any governor to face a recall based on the omnipresent challenges of managing such a large-scale disaster seems unfair.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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The Texas senator argued that while low corporate taxes is good economic policy, allowing people in high-cost, typically Democratic states to deduct more of their state and local taxes is unfair to rest of the country.—
Alexander Bolton,
The Hill,
17 Jan. 2025
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Reddit Reacts Reddit users supported OP, pointing out the unreasonable nature of the neighbor's behavior.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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The question the Supreme Court will consider Wednesday is whether courts can look at everything that happened during the 2016 traffic stop in determining if the officer can be tried for unreasonable force under the Fourth Amendment.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA TODAY,
22 Jan. 2025
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To Danes and pretty much anyone else who makes plans, signs treaties, or creates long-term strategies using rational arguments, this way of making policy feels arbitrary, pointless, even surreal.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
18 Jan. 2025
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Proposals to provide striking workers with unemployment benefits and set arbitrary regulations for warehouse workers threaten Connecticut’s economic future.—
Frank Ricci,
National Review,
17 Jan. 2025
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The racial wealth gap between Black and white households stems from unequal labor income, disparate housing equity and student loan debt, Alyasah Sewell, an associate professor of sociology at Emory University, said in the report.—
Cheyanne M. Daniels,
The Hill,
14 Jan. 2025
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Carter emphasizes that systemic challenges persist: unequal pay, the lack of affordable childcare, and limited parental leave for fathers all reinforce imbalances in parenting roles.—
Amy Shoenthal,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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