unjustly

English

Etymology

unjust +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈd͡ʒʌstli/

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• Hyphenation: un‧just‧ly

Adverb

unjustly (comparative more unjustly, superlative most unjustly)

1. In an unjust manner.

   Synonym: unfairly

   Antonyms: fairly, justly

   unjustly punished

   • 1556, John Heywood, chapter 24, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: […] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 110:

     Nowe is iuſte iuſtice, ſo iotted out of iointe, / That ye here vniuſtely, ſtande at deniall, / To do me iuſtice, and wolde by power ryall: / Directe mine acquitall or condemnacion, / Euen as wyll in both: weith your acceptacion.

Translations

in an unjust manner

• Catalan: injustament
• Esperanto: maljuste
• Finnish: epäoikeudenmukaisesti (fi)
• French: injustement (fr)
• Galician: inxustamente (gl)
• Georgian: არასამართლიანად (arasamartlianad), უსამართლოდ (usamartlod)
• German: ungerecht (de)
• Greek: άδικα (el) (ádika)

  Ancient: ἀδίκως (adíkōs)

• Italian: ingiustamente (it)
• Latin: inīque
• Portuguese: injustamente (pt)
• Russian: несправедли́во (ru) (nespravedlívo)
• Spanish: injustamente (es)
• Swedish: orättvist (sv)
• Telugu: అన్యాయముగా (te) (anyāyamugā)