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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Injustice \In*jus"tice\, noun [F. injustice, L. injustitia. See {In-} not, and {Justice}, and cf. {Unjust}.]
1. Lack of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.
If this people [the Athenians] resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. --Burke.
2. An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong.
Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices without being discovered, or at least without being punished. --Swift.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
injustice
noun
1: an unjust act [syn: {unfairness}, {iniquity}]
2: the practice of being unjust or unfair [syn: {unjustness}] [ant: {justice}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
124 Moby Thesaurus words for "injustice": abstractionism, asymmetry, atrocity, bias, bigotry, breach, coloring, contrariety, crime, crime against humanity, damage, deadly sin, deformation, delinquency, dereliction, difference, discrimination, disequilibrium, disparity, disproportion, disservice, distortion, enormity, error, evil, exaggeration, expressionism, failure, false coloring, falsification, fault, favoritism, felony, garbling, genocide, great wrong, grievance, gross injustice, guilty act, harm, heavy sin, heterogeneity, hurt, hyperbole, imbalance, imposition, impropriety, inaccuracy, inadequacy, indiscretion, inequality, inequitableness, inequity, inexpiable sin, infraction, infringement, iniquity, injury, insufficiency, irregularity, lapse, litotes, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, malum, minor wrong, miscarriage of justice, mischief, miscoloring, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdrawing, misfeasance, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, mortal sin, nonfeasance, nonrealism, nonuniformity, odds, offense, omission, one-sidedness, outrage, overbalance, overdrawing, overstatement, partiality, partisanship, peccadillo, peccancy, perversion, prejudice, raw deal, ruin, shortcoming, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slanting, slip, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, twisting, unbalance, understatement, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unfairness, unjustness, unutterable sin, venial sin, villainy, violation, wrong, wrongdoing
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
INJUSTICE, noun A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
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