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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Injustice; unfairness.
  • noun An instance of injustice or unfairness.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Lack of equity or abstract justice; disagreement with equitable principles; injustice; also, an unjust action or proceeding.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Lack of equity; injustice; wrong.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A lack of justice; injustice.
  • noun An unjust act; a disservice.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards

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in- +‎ equity

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