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Inequity

Want of equity; injustice; wrong.

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Injustice 76% connected

Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.

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Unfair 74% connected

To deprive of fairness or beauty.

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Unfair 74% connected

To deprive of fairness or beauty.

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Equity 94% connected

Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; f…

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Equity 94% connected

Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; f…

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Abuse verb · 78% connection

To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inheri…

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Action at law noun · 78% connection

a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right…

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Appeal verb · 78% connection

To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of…

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Case noun · 78% connection

That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; af…

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Casuistry adjective · 78% connection

The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the l…

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Chancery noun · 78% connection

In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.

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Complaint noun · 78% connection

A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime co…

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Crying adjective · 78% connection

conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a gl…

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Direptitiously adverb · 78% connection

With plundering violence; by violent injustice.

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Egregious adjective · 78% connection

conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a gl…

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Equitable adjective · 78% connection

That can be sustained or made available or effective in a court of equity, or upon principles of equity jurisprudence; as, an equitabl…

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Error noun · 78% connection

A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as,…

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Exaction noun · 78% connection

That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.

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Flagrant adjective · 78% connection

conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a gl…

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Glaring adjective · 78% connection

conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a gl…

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Grievance verb · 78% connection

A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising fro…

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Gross superl. · 78% connection

Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.

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Hardship noun · 78% connection

That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.

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