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Từ điển LongMan Dictionary
unjust
 un‧just/ˌʌnˈdʒʌst◂/ adjective formal
not fair or reasonable SYN unfair:
▪ unjust laws
—unjustly adverb
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THESAURUS
▪unfair/not fair not right or fair, especially because not everyone has an equal opportunity :
▪ The present welfare system is grossly unfair.
▪ It’s not fair that people are paying different prices for the same tickets.
▪unjust not fair or right according to the principles of a particular society :
▪ He believed it was an illegal and unjust war.
▪ unjust laws
▪unequal unfair because people are treated in different ways or because some people have more power than others :
▪ We live in a deeply unequal society.
▪ the unequal distribution of global resources
▪inequitable formal unfair because people are treated in different ways, or because some people have more power than others :
▪ inequitable tax laws
▪ The system is inequitable, because it makes it possible for rich people to buy a place at university.
▪biased unfairly against or in favour of a particular group :
▪ biased reporting
▪ There were claims that prison bosses were racially biased.
▪ The policy was biased against women.
▪ The trade laws are biased in favour of rich countries.
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
 NOUN
enrichment
▪ In the present case, the concept of unjust enrichment suggests that the plaintiffs should have a remedy.
▪ In my judgment, this is the paradigm of a case of unjust enrichment.
▪ The focus upon the offender's unjust enrichment is also questionable for two reasons.
law
▪ There followed a number of very unjust laws passed against them.
▪ The play attacks the corruption and depravity of the nobility as well as unjust laws and edicts.
▪ In doing so I did not of course mean to deny that sometimes immoral or unjust laws are not authoritatively binding.
▪ Neither abstinence from drugs nor blind adherence to unjust laws are necessarily consistent with those values.
▪ Remember that sometimes immoral or unjust laws may be authoritatively binding, at least on some people.
▪ Until now, most judges had been reluctant to enforce the harsh and unjust laws directed against the Nonconformists.
▪ Can it be that governments have in such circumstances authority to pass immoral and unjust laws?
▪ Both non-cooperation and civil disobedience imply some form of resistance to unjust laws, and could result in imprisonment for those involved.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ unjust punishment
▪ an unjust and pointless war
▪ The legal aid charity has helped overturn some notoriously unjust verdicts.
▪ They didn't mind breaking the law because they believed the law was unjust.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But in what sense can the conditions in prisons be said to be unjust?
▪ Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.
▪ He believed that, because we can recognize justice, we know, for example, that an unjust wage is theft.
▪ It brought back all the resentment at unjust accusations of 11 months before.
▪ The liberal press was said to be unjust, unfair and unpatriotic and deserved to be closed down.
▪ They believed the student demands to be unjust.
▪ Wherever freedom is denied to anyone for unfair or unjust reasons, capitalism can not thrive.
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