monstrous injustice

collocation in English

meaningsofmonstrousandinjustice

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monstrous
adjective
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/ˈmɒn.strəs/us
/ˈmɑːn.strəs/
very ...
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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 ofmonstrousandinjusticefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As all who have looked into the matter agree, it is amonstrousinjusticethat the unemployed do not receive this benefit.
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They were evicted legally, no doubt, but at the same time it was amonstrousinjustice.
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One can see in this way, taking comparable cities into account, that there will bemonstrousinjustice.
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Was there an agitation then against this mythicalmonstrousinjustice?
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It would relieve those undertakings which at the moment are subject to amonstrousinjustice, and it would help to put them on their feet.
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Is that not amonstrousinjusticeto the inner cities?
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It is amonstrousinjusticethat discretion should be only one way.
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It is a monstrous cruelty, and at the same time amonstrousinjustice.
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But this is, to my mind, amonstrousinjustice, unworthy of a country which has always believed in the virtues of fair play.
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He spoke of it as being amonstrousinjusticeand a scandal.
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To be able to victimise him because of that would be amonstrousinjustice.
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He went on to say that to ask the unemployed or anyone else to accept them was amonstrousinjustice.
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For the average person who must foot the bill, that failure is amonstrousinjustice.
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That would be amonstrousinjusticeto the man who pioneered the whole idea.
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Surely we cannot agree to amonstrousinjusticelike that.
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As long as it seeks to impose such amonstrousinjusticeon the farmers, we shall feel bound to oppose it.
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I must protest against what seems to me to be a mostmonstrousinjustice.
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I say a moremonstrousinjusticewas never committed on any county.
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Look at themonstrousinjusticethat you are making possible.
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It is amonstrousinjusticethat the present law is weighted so heavily in favour of those who speculate in other people's homes.
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