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Unfairly   /ənfˈɛrli/   Listen
Unfairly

adverb
1.
In an unfair manner.  Synonym: below the belt.  "Their accusations hit below the belt"  Antonym: fairly.






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"Unfairly" Quotes from Famous Books



... hers to whom he has sworn to be true?" Ralph did not forget at this moment to whisper to himself for his own consolation, that he had never sworn to be true to Clarissa. And, indeed, he did feel, that though there had been a kiss, the scene on the lawn was being used unfairly to his prejudice. "I am afraid you are very fickle, Mr. Newton, and that your love ...
— Ralph the Heir • Anthony Trollope

... was Archdeacon of London; and, among other works, had recently published a life of the celebrated Erasmus, the mention of whom by Pope, which Walpole presently quotes, is not very unfairly ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I • Horace Walpole

... fungi beneath. He looked up his Sowerby to see if it was Lycoperdon coelatum or giganteum—like all his kind since Gilbert White became famous, he Gilbert-Whited. He cherished a theory that giganteum is unfairly named. ...
— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells

... such as this. To do Gipsy justice, however, she thought far more of the cause she had taken up than of her own popularity. "Fairness" was her watchword, and wherever her lot had been cast she would have come forward as the champion of any whom she considered unfairly treated. A girl of decided ability, her knockabout life had in many ways made her old beyond her years, and she had that capacity for organization and power of making others work with her that belong to the born leader. Having constituted herself practically head ...
— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil

... It amused him to have Mr. Frye beaten unfairly. Mr. Frye wanted to get his daughter away from him. "Well," he said in his mind, to Mr. Frye, "just go easy. Just go easy, Mr. Frye." And he winked again at Mr. Crabbe. "That's right," he said, "give it ...
— Autumn • Robert Nathan


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