unfairly
85
1.8
- adverb
- /ʌnˈfɛrli/
:
injustamente
- Albanians now know how unfairly they were treated for such a long time.
- treat unfairly
- discriminate unfairly
- judge unfairly
Okay, I think people were unfairly harsh on this.
- Okay, I think people were unfairly harsh on this.
- Pressure to forgive unfairly targets some people more than others.
- And some of those resources are, are unfairly distributed.
- Oh, OK, but but don't restrictions like photo ID unfairly target certain groups of voters?
- One could say, well, they have been unfairly treated by life.
- Except when you're around these relationships and people will unfairly paint a picture of you that isn't you.
- I feel like my career was unfairly taken away from me based on total lies.
- The point of that scene is that Maya gets unfairly fired.
- And, and and look, maybe the winners here have unfairly critiqued Hitler and the Nazis and so on.
- Instead, the onus is unfairly placed on those with allergies to inform their service.
- I feel that I've been unfairly represented in my views in the media.
- And when something doesn't go the way they want, it is always about how they are being unfairly targeted and zeroed in on.
Examples
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I feel like my career was unfairly taken away from me based on total lies.
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Your Honor, it would unfairly influence the jury.
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One could say, well, they have been unfairly treated by life.
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We feel in England that we treated you rather unfairly.
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Okay, I think people were unfairly harsh on this.
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In this case, the national law is seen as unfairly placing greater restrictions on small farmers.
Academic text (2013) -
I think he's being rather unfairly treated.
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I feel that I've been unfairly represented in my views in the media.
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Every judicial code says something about not treating people unfairly, not playing favorites, right.
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If you see someone else being treated unfairly, it's your duty to speak up.
Synonyms
65
2.7
In a way that is not correct or fair
25
5.2
In an unfair way
24
4.6
In a way that is unfair or against the law
11
4.1
In a way that is unfair or much too extreme
9
6.7
An action or remark that is unfair and hurtful, especially when it attacks someone's personal life
4
4.3
In a way that is not fair or even
2
8.9
In a way that is very unfair or too harsh
2
7.0
In a way that has no good reason
1
8.0
In a way that treats people unfairly
1
8.0
In a way that is not fair or right
1
8.2
Without a good reason or any right to do it
1
8.2
In a way that harms someone or gives them less chance of success
In a way that is wrong or unfair
In a way that is very unfair and morally wrong
In a way that has no good reason
In a way that affects people and places unequally
In an unfair way that treats people differently because of their race or gender
Antonyms
How Fairly
Surface Forms
Morphology
unfairly = unfair (transparent) = un + fair + ly
The adverb is formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'unfair', whose negative prefixation is regular and semantically transparent.
Etymology
Unfairly is built from the parts un- ('not'), fair ('just', as in 'fair play'), and -ly ('in a way'). So, unfairly means 'in a way that is not fair'.