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Unfairly

Unfair \Un*fair"\, a. [AS. unf[ae]ger unlovely. See Un- not, and Fair, a.] Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal.

You come, like an unfair merchant, to charge me with being in your debt.
--Swift. [1913 Webster] -- Un*fair"ly, adv. -- Un*fair"ness, n.

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unfairly

adv. In a manner that is unfair, which is not just.

WordNet
unfairly

adv. in an unfair manner; "they dealt with him unfairly"; "their accusations hit below the belt" [syn: below the belt] [ant: fairly]

Usage examples of "unfairly".

Sunshine Junkanoo Band, named after the imported Bahamian music that influenced their intricate horns and percussion until their brilliance was unfairly splattered with the embarrassing stain of disco.

But most important, we shall be free at last from the onus a cruel society unfairly placed on us.

Finally, and unfairly he supposed now, he had taken out his frustration by blowing his stack at the damned drug company saleswoman who had come into his office late in the afternoon.

During that same period, the publicity department continued to churn out ream after ream of material about the genius of Lester Barnstorm, the sole creator of The Solar Ballet, thus creating and maintaining a vivid public perception that Barnstorm, the great man, was being unfairly and maliciously attacked by a disgruntled ex-employee.

It was a long shot, but Boyce was already in his mind mapping out pretrial motion number seventy-five, on the even more daring premise that the traces of French-made hand moisturizing cream in the fingerprints would unfairly bias jurors who felt that an American First Lady should use only American-made beauty products.

Dowdy believed that his initial reluctance to run the gauntlet in Nasiriyah after Task Force Tarawa stumbled into the unanticipated battle there had set a tone and that he was unfairly depicted as too hesitant by Kelly regarding an operation in Kut that Mattis himself had never planned.

Like nearly everyone who ever played a large part in public life and helped make history, Adams wondered how history would portray him, and worried not a little that he might be unfairly treated, misunderstood, or his contributions made to look insignificant compared to those of others.

Tintallionese demonologist by the name of Katherian of the Coast, whose advances Kallia had reportedly refused, and who apparently felt that Heremon had treated him unfairly in business.

The Egyptians would oppose efforts to tighten the sanctions as unfairly hurting the Iraqi people without hurting Saddam, as well as hurting other Arab countries, such as Jordan.

Cosimo III, but he proved to be an ineffectual leader with no interest in science, who taxed the Florentines unfairly as he squandered what remained of the Medici fortune.

That always got to me: I stormed back, unfairly now, that even read as I read them the poets were wrong: freeing Mother Danaƫ, not Andromeda, had been my mission.

But once inside his truck he felt so unfairly cheated that he damn near broke a finger clobbering the dashboard.

They were not to be pathetic creatures that were unfairly persecuted so that I could make Aesopic statements about Jews, Blacks or any other mistreated members of society.

She has barely begun telling Betty Blum how grateful she is for the ride not to mention the company when she is pulled about by her elbow and scolded so loudly for going off without taking the mail -- so unfairly -- that the world is suddenly billowing silent about her, all the street sounds ceasing, the hens not clucking, the kids not chattering on the rooftop, the mariachi not pumping his accordion.

Japan and the rest of the Eastern hemisphere was being unfairly left behind.