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unfair

[uhn-fair]

adjective

not fair; not conforming to approved standards, as of justice, honesty, or ethics: an unfair law; an unfair wage policy.

disproportionate; undue; beyond what is proper or fitting: an unfair share.

Origin:
before 900; 1705–15 for def. 1; Middle English: uncomely, ugly; Old English unfæger; cognate with Old Norse ūfagr. See un-¹, fair¹

Related forms

un·fair·ly, adverb

un·fair·ness, noun

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He got a ton of publicity for his tirade, a reward that was pretty unfair in and of itself.

Wait lists are another unfair practice which needs to be examined carefully.

Without these conditions, trade quickly becomes inefficient and unfair.

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He got a ton of publicity for his tirade, a reward that was pretty unfair in and of itself.

Wait lists are another unfair practice which needs to be examined carefully.

Without these conditions, trade quickly becomes inefficient and unfair.

Opponents to globalization blame free trade for unfair working conditions.

Most intellectuals say the regime is unfair and corrupt.

Work from high school students is screened alongside that of more experienced animators, inviting unfair comparisons.

That's unfair precisely because people aren't given the chance to decide for themselves.

And the new cry from the hired hands of the rich is that it's unfair that the wealthy should pay such a large share of taxes.

It is difficult to piece together the key elements of the bureaucratic train wreck that led to this unfair decision.

Opponents as well as allies thought the story unfair.

After all it's unfair for pack leaders to create this type of excited greeting and then expect him to know the difference later.

The individual who received an unfair distribution refused to take part in the study.

In some cases, disputes developed only decades after the award was made-and only with the unfair advantage of hindsight.

It's unfair to say that one bad drumbeat ruins the whole orchestra.

McClure accused the university of using a new and unfair.

China can, and no doubt will, file a complaint if it reckons their application is unfair.

Your predjudice over small dogs is unwarranted and unfair.

Also, it is extremely unfair to limit this opportunity only to children.

Truth be told, it is probably unfair for me to add this one to the list.

Hall's characterization of a public presidential search as unfair to the applicants is somewhat disingenuous.

The current system is unfair to prisoners trying to rejoin society.

Again, to blame solar power for these kinds of problems is unfair and dishonest.

He should have also pointed out that it's grossly unfair.

She got it partly because it seemed unfair that a country so poor was the biggest net contributor.

So it's reasonable to ask whether he had an unfair advantage.

Visits now entailed six hours and a stopover in each direction, and the separation felt completely unfair.

Financial dealings are nearly always at root unfair for someone.

Defining childhood obesity as abuse would place a tremendous burden on parents-and an unfair one.

But in both cases they're products of an inefficient and unfair system.

But it was unfair to the taxpayers that politicians were pushing that company so hard.

For example, a six sided fair die has a higher entropy than a six sided unfair die.

Track and field's governing body fears his prosthetic limbs may give him an unfair advantage.

Their story depicts an unfair society offering less opportunity than the majority perceives.

That's unfair to the athletes and makes conflicts of interest even more likely to taint results.

It's equally unfair when those of us with kids mention our families and are greeted.

Land-use conversion regulations have also been tightened in an effort to reduce unrest provoked by unfair seizures of land.

Also with all the talk about unfair sentancing laws.

And anything less than the two rates is a sop to the rich and unfair to the poor.

By codifying the validity of these licenses, software vendors could gain an unfair advantage.

High-frequency trading may give traders using powerful computers an unfair advantage in the stock market, critics say.

If it doesn't, that seems to diminish the achievement, which seems kind of unfair since it's significant to have been approached.

Although this may seem a little unfair to computers, a group of.

Obviously, the causes of the revolution were far more complicated than the price of bread or unfair taxes on salt.

Seems unfair given that the whole longitude system is based on an arbitrary choice of starting point.

We felt not offering them to say would have been unfair.

Even if you decide to agree to his wishes, the resentment you will feel is unfair to you both.

And they say the government is unbiased and won't lie and give an unfair advantage to further their products.

From my personal experiences as a teacher, the system absolutely sucks and is incredibly unfair.

Today's opaque pensions system is unfair to private-sector workers, who suffer a triple whammy.

Their complaints that they are being driven out of business by unfair taxes are being heard with new sympathy.

And some foreign corporations have criticized the park's model as offering an unfair level of government support.

The conduct of the election was hailed as a big improvement on the unfair polls of the past dozen years.

Some will complain that it is unfair to hold science accountable for the misdeeds of a minority.

We need them not primarily as a way to police people but as a way to protect them from unfair treatment.

But it insists that it has never tinkered with the results of searches to give its businesses an unfair advantage.

It is unfair to their wives, and their daughters, and their grandaughters.

Putting race into the equation is unfair to both white and black students.

Most state schools stopped this because it was seen as unfair to other tax payers.

The motives of hiring committees are mysterious, unconscious, and sometimes unfair.

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World English Dictionary

unfair (ʌnˈfɛə)

—*adj*
1.	characterized by inequality or injustice
2.	dishonest or unethical

un'fairly

—*adv*

un'fairness

—n

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Word Origin & History

unfair

O.E. unfægr "unlovely," from un- (1) "not" + fair. Cf. O.N. ufagr, Goth. unfagrs. Meaning "wicked, evil, bad" is recorded from c.1300. Sense of "not equitable, unjust" is first recorded 1713.

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