Crossword clues for unjustly
unjustly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unjust \Un*just"\, a.
Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.
Contrary to justice and right; prompted by a spirit of injustice; wrongful; as, an unjust sentence; an unjust demand; an unjust accusation. [1913 Webster] -- Un*just"ly, adv. -- Un*just"ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. in an unjust manner
WordNet
adv. in an unjust manner; "he was unjustly singled out for punishment" [ant: rightly]
Usage examples of "unjustly".
Renz be the Mask, with the profits of crime buried somewhere, Alker would be unjustly sentenced to the electric chair.
Judge, answering to the said appeal, if it may be called an appeal, says that he, the Judge, has proceeded and did intend to proceed in accordance with the Canonical decrees and the Imperial statutes and laws, and has not departed from the path of either law nor intended so to depart, and has in no way acted or intended to act unjustly towards the appellant, as is manifest from an examination of the alleged grounds for this appeal.
Judge has in no way dealt unjustly by the appellant nor given him cause to appeal, but that the appellant is afraid lest justice should proceed against him according to his crimes.
Pity, that in His botched universe a Hector must unjustly die, and his poor corpse be dragged in the dust.
Never do you more truly discharge the functions of the Cancelli than when you open the prison doors to those who have been unjustly confined.
The writer maintained that even if she were guilty she had been unjustly punished, and should appeal to Rome.
Consequently, although, after deceiving man, the devil, so far as in him lay, held him unjustly in bondage as to both sin and penalty, still it was just that man should suffer it, God so permitting it as to the sin and ordaining it as to the penalty.
Senate had condemned him and not the Duca di Sessa, and that Cardan was now slandering this prince most unjustly.
England to demand the restoration of King Richard, most unjustly and unknightly detained a prisoner in his passage through your dominions.
It was barely possible that I was unjustly anathematizing these gentlemen, that, while they were peacefully sleeping, thieves had broken in below.
She became very disorientated for a time and blamed Breedy for the accident, most unjustly, of course, but we were led to assume that she would never forgive him.
As with many such petitions, mine recited that the defendant was being unjustly held, that the defendant was innocent, that hitherto unknown exculpatory evidence had recently come to light, and that the interests of justice would best be served by an expedited hearing on same.
Jones, on the contrary, whose character was on the outside of generosity, and may perhaps not very unjustly have been suspected of extravagance, without any hesitation gave a guinea in exchange for the book.
Many idle stories were told about this society, which from a certain quality may be, perhaps not unjustly, supposed to have come from the society themselves.
Presburg, but proffered to make immediate restitution of all the rents which he had unjustly converted to his own use.