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unfairing

unfairing is the present participle and gerund of unfair.

Meaning of unfair

Verb

unfair (third-person singular simple present unfairs, present participle unfairing, simple past and past participle unfaired)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) to make ugly
    • Those hours that with gentle work did frame / The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell / Will play the tyrants to the very same / And that unfair which fairly doth excel.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

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Questions about unfairing

What is unfairing the present participle and gerund of?
Unfairing is the present participle and gerund of unfair.

Words near unfairing in the dictionary

  1. unfair list
  2. unfair lists
  3. unfaired
  4. unfairer
  5. unfairest
  6. unfairing
  7. unfairly
  8. unfairminded
  9. unfairmindedness
  10. unfairness
  11. unfairnesses

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