[
UK
/ʌndʒˈʌstli/
]
[ US /ənˈdʒəstɫi/ ]
[ US /ənˈdʒəstɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
in an unjust manner
he was unjustly singled out for punishment
How To Use unjustly In A Sentence
- From farmers "mobbed" off their lands, to union organizers beaten, to anti-war protestors unjustly imprisoned, to "un-American activities" committees, to Civil Rights activists murdered -- America has traveled an almost-constant and continuing road of such struggles. Chris Weigant: A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial
- Second, they'd imply that Chalabi had been unjustly maligned or demonized by opponents with other agendas to pursue.
- In such a situation no individual is any longer penalized and none is unjustly enriched.
- Trumped-up charges of conspiracy to overthrow the queen, and an unjustly conducted prosecution, brought conviction of treason and hanging at Tyburn.
- One fella on the bus seemed particularly pleased with himself and not unjustly the crowd called him a johnny.
- His claim to be an important and unjustly neglected painter is sheer self-deception - he's no good at all.
- We need afederal law that any time someone is kept off the ballot and it is later determined by a Federal agency that is was done unjustly, the state has to pay several million dollars in restitution. Ballot Access News
- I was trying to speak up on behalf of the unjustly stigmatized, but I was treated as if I were some kind of soft-headed spam lover.
- In the unlikely event that the police do find that a vehicle has been unjustly impounded by one of their members and they return the vehicle, who will pay the towage and storage costs?
- Whether justly or unjustly acquired, various forms of wealth can become our master, shaping and filling our lives in a godlike manner.