{
    "term": "injustice",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the fact of a situation being unfair and of people not being treated equally; an unfair act or an example of unfair treatment",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We are committed to fighting against poverty and injustice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a burning **sense of injustice**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Social and political injustice seemed to be getting worse rather than better."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was enraged at the injustice of the remark."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The report exposes the injustices of the system."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It would be an injustice to the man to imprison him for life."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She remains adamant that an injustice was done."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was acclaimed for speaking out against injustice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was overwhelmed by the injustice of it all."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The trial was regarded as the greatest injustice of the post-war criminal justice system."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They see the injustice and want to help."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a novel that sets out to expose social injustice"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a terrible injustice by the police"
                },
                {
                    "text": "people who work hard to correct society's injustices"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I did not really see myself as a victim of injustice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She felt a burning sense of injustice with regard to the situation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The court decided that he certainly had suffered an injustice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were convinced that a grave injustice had been done."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["grave", "great", "gross"],
                "verb + injustice": ["experience", "suffer", "regard something as"],
                "preposition": ["injustice by", "injustice to"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the injustice of it all",
                    "a sense of injustice",
                    "a victim of injustice"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to judge yourself/somebody unfairly",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We may have been doing him an injustice. This work is good."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Perhaps I'm doing you an injustice."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs/",
                "audio": "in/injustice/injustice__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs/",
                "audio": "in/injustice/injustice__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin injustitia, from in- ‘not’ + justus ‘just, right’."
}