: 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.
▪ 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.





