injustice

Example Sentences

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I remember thinking her diatribe about the injustice of Hester Prynne’s shunning would segue into the cruelties Charles faced with the goal of inspiring someone to defy the blacklist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

The charity urged a cap on CEO pay and dividend payments to tackle the injustice.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

“All the versions ask, ‘What would you do to protect your family?’ but this also asks, ‘If an injustice was done to somebody, then what are they justified doing in return,’” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

For Mock, pretrial detention—which he likened to Soviet forced-labor prisons—is the foundation of his perceived injustice.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

Now that I am actuated by hopes more active—by anger at injustice and demand for benevolence—I fear I shall not be so reckless of my life.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson