great injustice

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandinjustice

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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injustice
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˈdʒʌs.tɪs/us
/ɪnˈdʒʌs.tɪs/
(an example of) a situation in which there is no fairness ...
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(Definition ofgreatandinjusticefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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On this subject, the compromise achieved does all users of these medicinal products agreatinjustice.
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He did himself agreatinjustice, and he made a beautiful speech.
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The secondgreatinjusticeof widows lies in the treatment of widowhood itself.
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I think that is agreatinjusticeto the approved societies, and a still greater injustice so far as those employees are concerned.
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Obviously, it is agreatinjusticethat they cannot do so.
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That has caused verygreatinjusticeto the workers, particularly to munition workers.
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It is a verygreatinjusticeto them if through the intrusion of aliens, they are deprived of that right.
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You ought not to interfere with one without the other, because you do agreatinjustice.
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Some of those men have been called up again, and have been deprived of their pension, which seems to me to be agreatinjustice.
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I doubt very much whether it can be done withoutgreatinjustice, although the end may justify the means.
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Now, of course, they are feeling a sense ofgreatinjusticeat what sometimes amounts practically to confiscation of their property.
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It is working verygreatinjustice.
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But in the course of these discussions we have become seized of agreatinjusticein respect of this compensation stock.
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In that case, it produces agreatinjustice.
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I think he did my noble friend agreatinjustice.
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If they went it would begreatinjusticeto them, and a great loss to the housewife.
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I believe that agreatinjusticehas in fact been done.
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There is another wide field in which we cannot but feel thatgreatinjusticehas been done, and that many wrongs have to be righted.
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I believe it is doing public opinion agreatinjusticeto say that it is like that.
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It is a great mistake, therefore, and agreatinjustice, to deprecate the importance and the very high quality of the technical schools and universities.
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