How to Use unjust in a Sentence

unjust

adjective
  • The convict received an unjust sentence.
  • What was done to you was unjust, unfair, racist and wrong.
    — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • God causes the rain and sun to fall and shine on the just and unjust.
    — The Rev. Bill Thomas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 3 Aug. 2019
  • These charges are absurd and unjust.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
    — kansascity, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Thus, the risks are too great to maintain this unjust system.
    — Jack Tate, The Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2020
  • When did a just war to defend the country turn into an unjust land grab?
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Justice in a too-often unjust world.
    — Cbs Chicago Team, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Oregon State peaking right as it gets kicked to the curb feels unjust.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Which land’s unjust deeds does one examine?
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Where the accused is placed above the law, there is an unjust system of justice.
    — Lewis R. Gordon, The Conversation, 12 Apr. 2021
  • That doesn’t mean Balogun didn’t think the red card was unjust.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • But that unjust structure has been there from the very beginning.
    — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 25 June 2018
  • This is an unjust and unstable structure, which will fall over.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Sometimes, that chasm feels unfair, an unjust result of one or two plays gone the wrong way.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Yes, the injustice done to Yarris was unjust.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • In the 60s, some psychedelics users hoped to change an unjust world in a radical way.
    — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • Many see the loss of these lives as symbolic of an unjust social order.
    — Henry Porter, The Hive, 16 June 2017
  • The just man is happier than the unjust man, even when he is being tortured on the rack.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
  • Aristotle said that lying is an unjust act.
    — Katherine Moses, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
  • As the pillars of this tale, these three cling to their humanity in a deeply unjust world.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 7 Apr. 2026
  • To be Trump is to be accustomed to an unjust world unimpressed with your majesty.
    — Frank Bruni New York Times, Star Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
  • To all but the most rabid leftists, this result is grossly unjust.
    — Mike Davis, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025
  • This scenario should strike anyone as grossly unjust.
    — Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The situation is unjust to sailors both on board and onshore.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just’s umbrella.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Much of the rest of Europe has slowly come around — at least to the idea that an unjust peace deal is no deal at all.
    — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The movie is a classic story about the little guy standing up against an unjust system.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2023
  • How does justice show up when no one is watching or when there are no consequences for being unjust?
    — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Congress ought to look into this travesty and start a program to right this unjust wrong.
    — Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2017

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