unjustly

unjust +‎ -ly

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈd͡ʒʌstli/

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• Hyphenation: un‧just‧ly

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.