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in·jus·tice Listen to audio/ɪnˈʤʌstəs/ noun
plural in·jus·tic·es
: unfair treatment : a situation in which the rights of a person or a group of people are ignored [noncount] The organization is devoted to fighting economic/racial/social injustice. protection against injustice [count] the injustices of apartheid The law is part of an effort to correct an old injustice. He suffered a great/terrible injustice [=wrong] at their hands.
do (someone or something) an injustice
: to treat (someone or something) in an unfair way
They did her a great/terrible/grave injustice by not allowing her to file a complaint. I think you do the book an injustice when you call it trash. The weak punishment does an injustice to the criminal's victims.

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