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Unequally

Unequally \Un*e"qual*ly\, adv. In an unequal manner.

Unequally pinnate (Bot.), pinnate, but with an odd number of leaflets.

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unequally

adv. Not equally, unevenly, sometimes unfairly.

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unequally

adv. in an unequal or partial manner; "profits were distributed unevenly"; "angry at being dealt with so unequally" [syn: unevenly] [ant: evenly, evenly]

Usage examples of "unequally".

But in all constitutions there is more than one element, and the several elements maybe developed pari passu, or unequally, one having the ascendency and suppressing the rest.

With all the above species of Ipomoea, when the two cotyledons on the same seedling were unequally depressed at night, this seemed to depend on the position which they had held during the day with reference to the light.

The electromagnetic noise, emitted unequally from many places on the planet, intensified considerably, as if hundreds of maxwellian transmitters had been turned on at once.

And just as there is, primarily or secondarily, some form or idea from the monad in each of the successive numbers--the later still participating, though unequally, in the unit--so the series of Beings following upon The First bear, each, some form or idea derived from that source.

In a row which he had taken great pains to make straight, but which was nevertheless crooked because the paper was unlined, eight, twelve, thirteen, fourteen unequally flattened circles and on every kidney a wartlike knob, and from each wart a bar the length of a thumbnail, projecting beyond the lopsided boiler toward the left edge of the paper.

Chapter II Variation under Nature Variability -- Individual Differences -- Doubtful species -- Wide ranging, much diffused, and common species vary most -- Species of the larger genera in any country vary more than the species of the smaller genera -- Many of the species of the larger genera resemble varieties in being very closely, but unequally, related to each other, and in having restricted ranges.

Chapter II Variation Under Nature Variability -- Individual differences -- Doubtful species -- Wide ranging, much diffused, and common species vary most -- Species of the larger genera in any country vary more than the species of the smaller genera -- Many of the species of the larger genera resemble varieties in being very closely, but unequally, related to each other, and in having restricted ranges.

There were immense dark avenues separating heavy gasometers standing one behind another, like monstrous columns, unequally high and, undoubtedly, in the past the supports of some tremendous, some fearful iron edifice.

Physical astigmatism is a distortion of the eye lenses that causes rays of light from an external point to converge unequally and form warped images.

To Job it is not revealed why suffering is apportioned so unequally or why it exists, but the answer of the Almighty from the whirlwind he cannot dispute, and although Spinoza has nothing more to say about pain than he says in the passages just quoted and was certainly not exempt from it himself, it may be impossible that any man should hate God.

Yet the encyclical denounces, as "unjust," free trade among unequally developed countries, on the grounds that "highly industrialized nations export for the most part manufactured goods, while countries with less developed economies have only food, fibers, and other raw materials to sell.

In large genera the species are apt to be closely, but unequally, allied together, forming little clusters round certain species.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?