unjust
The publisher agreed that Flynn had been unjustly criticized.
He had been unjustly imprisoned for five years.
The two men were unjustly convicted of murder.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
ableism
ableist
agism
agist
Anglocentric
discrimination
discriminative
discriminatorily
discriminatory
drumhead
one-sided
one-sidedly
one-sidedness
one-way
the old school tie
tokenize
two-tier
unbalance
unequal
unequally

Examples of unjustly

unjustly
Moreover, it is clear that if justice amounts to compensation for holdings unjustly lost then something has to be the object of such compensation.
Agency-dependent egalitarians claim that one way of treating people unfairly or unjustly is to treat them unequally.
We are, in fact, in the presence of an important figure unjustly neglected.
A discourse thinks that too many laws unjustly ensnare the people subject to them.
Attacking military supplies to be used unjustly against one is appropriate, even if ultimately impermissible due to collateral damage.
Cognitive neuropsychology is unjustly blamed in the target article for other vices too.
If suffering is unjustly caused, any fellow-feeling towards those who are suffering will naturally result in disapproval of the cause of the suffering.
Instead, as time goes by one becomes a knave, someone who routinely acts unjustly, and who therefore acquires the reputation of being a knave.
But when one has acted unjustly for a thousand years, that would never be right for a single hour.
Further, whether the current property owners acquired their titles unjustly or not, they almost certainly did not act unjustly in relation to private developers.
The male principle, more visible, would unjustly eclipse the female and maternal principle.
The implications of epistemic responsibility also extend beyond the humiliating knowledge of one's own failings to the painful knowledge that others unjustly despise you.
We are cut down by the very responses we employ to honor the memory of those who have been treated unjustly.
Certainly the expert arguments favouring procedural rights asked participants to imagine themselves in the role of the (unjustly) accused, something many of them may not frequently have done.
Furthermore, he counseled the bosses that the law prohibited "coalitions of employers formed in order to compel unjustly the decrease of wages" (quoted in ibid., 384; emphasis added).
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