unfairly

Adverb

Meaning

in an unfair manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

below the belt unjustly wrong poorly badly foul unjust wrongly improperly fraudulently unequally immorally dishonestly foully partially
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Antonyms

fairly justly right well righteously properly
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Phrases with the word

unfairly dismissed unfairly disadvantage treat unfairly

Examples

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly. Mario Cuomo

Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive. Virginia Foxx

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. Leo Tolstoy

great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it. Charles Bukowski

People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur. Mohamed ElBaradei

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion. Conrad Black

Close letter words and terms

unfair treatment based on race unfair trial unfaired unfairly disadvantage unfairly dismissed unfairminded