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Example sentences for "unjustly"

Lexicographically close words:
unjudged; unjust; unjustifiable; unjustifiably; unjustified; unked; unkempt; unkept; unkind; unkinde
  1. But neither was Charlotte in the wrong, for she felt herself unjustly judged; and her feeling was right, because Harriet used false standards.

  2. I broke out passionately complaining that I could not be expected to obey rules when I was unjustly treated: I could bear anything else, but I could not support injustice.

  3. Pilate was then sentenced by him to death, for having unjustly crucified our Lord.

  4. There never was so miserable a woman--so unjustly miserable!

  5. It is easy to stand through evil report and good by those who are unjustly accused, who are wronged, for whom and on whose behalf you can hold your head high.

  6. He had kept back nothing, but displayed the most honourable anxiety to clear the gentleman who had been so unjustly accused and put to so much personal inconvenience.

  7. When the great Napoleon conquered Italy he carried off most unjustly hundreds of priceless works of art, and when the tyrant was overthrown the young Canova was sent as ambassador to Paris to find the whereabouts of these works.

  8. To bring about this end he appointed a governor, who treated the Swiss unjustly and cruelly.

  9. He means to sacrifice himself unjustly for my sake, when it was I killed her.

  10. Thou deservest not torture and blows, and I see thou hast been unjustly entreated.

  11. And if the nature of justice and injustice be known, then the meaning of acting unjustly and being unjust, or, again, of acting justly, will also be perfectly clear?

  12. Gentlemen, when laws are unjustly severe, denouncing a punishment highly excessive, the juries refuse to convict.

  13. He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still.

  14. Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words.

  15. One of the cardinal difficulties of all free government is to make it hard for majorities to act unjustly to minorities.

  16. The nation, at any rate, was in one of its high idealising humours, though Gordon had roused some feeling against himself in this country (unjustly enough) by his decree formally sanctioning the holding of slaves.

  17. Such was the sad end of one of the greatest heroes of his age;[12] a man guilty of many crimes, but also unjustly accused of many of which he was innocent.

  18. Added to the ill treatment of the priests, the Indians are most unjustly oppressed by the civil authorities.

  19. Pike was appealed to and threw the weight of his influence against John Ross, but most unjustly as it would seem.

  20. Our question is, what a people should do when a kingdom is unjustly invaded by a foreign enemy, who seeketh the overthrow of religion, king and kingdom.

  21. You may find, to our great grief, a great number of them in that army, that hath unjustly invaded the land, who have trampled upon the authority of kings.

  22. The fresco below relates a vision of the Emperor Constantine who had ordered his three generals, unjustly accused of treason, to be put to death.

  23. If my neighbor holds unjustly what belongs to me, or if he has failed to repair damages caused, to recover my losses by secret compensation has the same degree of malice and disorder.

  24. To take therefore unjustly from a person what to that person is a notable amount is a grievous sin.

  25. It is covetousness to be so disposed as to acquire riches unjustly rather than suffer poverty.

  26. This rule applies to all cases in which the neighbor is made to suffer unjustly in his lawful possessions; and it effects all wrongdoers whether they steal or destroy another's goods or co-operate efficaciously in such deeds of sin.

  27. A MAN who has stolen, has nothing more urgent and imperative to perform, on this side of eternity, than the duty of refunding the money or goods unjustly acquired, or the value thereof.

  28. The wilful debtor is, first of all, a thief and a robber, because he retains unjustly the lawful possessions of another.

  29. How should he do otherwise, knowing that his persecutors treated him unjustly and yet maintained the contrary?

  30. To go counter to it in obeying God's command--this the ecclesiasts unjustly call disobedience and sedition.

  31. But if I suffer innocently and am unjustly treated, I am not to justify the ill-treatment and strengthen the enemy in his sins; for, so doing, I would approve his conduct and assume the guilt attributed.

  32. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.

  33. To diminish, by the authority of wise and knowing men, things unjustly and unprobably crept in.

  34. He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time.

  35. The odium of an offense may sometimes fall unjustly upon one who is innocent.

  36. Writ of right (Law), a writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.

  37. Those who have long been teachers sometimes acquire, unconsciously, a manner which borders too much on the magisterial, and may be unjustly construed as dogmatical, or even arrogant.

  38. Ye have plundered and unjustly despoiled a group of people who have never rebelled in your domains, nor disobeyed your government, but rather kept to themselves and engaged day and night in the remembrance of God.

  39. Beware not to deal unjustly with anyone that appealeth to you and entereth beneath your shadow.

  40. Our purpose is that thou mayest lift up thy head from the couch of heedlessness, shake off the slumber of negligence, and cease to oppose unjustly the servants of God.

  41. Ye remained careless until the divines of Persia—those cruel ones—pronounced judgement against Him, and unjustly slew Him.

  42. Watch that ye betray not His trust, that ye deal not unjustly with them and that ye walk not in the ways of the treacherous.

  43. When a neighbouring monarch, driven by an usurper from his dominions, came to implore my assistance, I recognized in him my own Sovereign, who had unjustly stripped me of my possessions and sent me into banishment.

  44. No one, barbarian or civilized, will ever be treated unjustly by the Most High.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unjustly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    inexcusably; partially; unevenly