unfairly
unfairly adverb: in a manner that is unfair.
Adverb
unfairly (comparative more unfairly, superlative most unfairly)
- In a manner that is unfair.
- The carnival games were unfairly difficult, and hardly anybody won a prize.
- As a result, many Black people remained unfairly enslaved and indentured in the so-called free territory. This was not legal slavery (also known as de jure slavery), but slavery in practice (de facto slavery).2022, Mary Elise Antoine, Enslaved, Indentured, Free: Five Black Women on the Upper Mississippi, 1800–1850, Wisconsin Historical Society, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- unjustly
unfairly meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
unfairly in Tamil
- நியாயமற்ற முறையில், நியாயமற்ற வகையில்
unfairly in Marathi
- अन्यायकारकपणे
unfairly in Urdu
- غیرمنصفانہ طور پر, نامناسب طور پر
unfairly in Bengali
- অন্যায়ভাবে, অন্যায্যভাবে
More languagesFewer languages
- unfairly in Telugu
- అన్యాయంగా
- unfairly in Malayalam
- അന്യായമായി
- unfairly in Kannada
- ಅನ್ಯಾಯವಾಗಿ
- unfairly in Gujarati
- અન્યાયપૂર્ણ રીતે, અન્યાયી રીતે
Examples of unfairly in a sentence
- He's been unfairly labeled as a cheat, although he's only ever cheated once.
- The court intervened to reapportion the voting districts that had been unfairly laid out under the controlling party's regime.
- Here are 18 things that society has unfairly demonized that should be considered normal.
Synonyms of unfairly
Antonyms
Forms of unfairly
| comparative | more unfairly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unfairly |
Origin of unfairly
From unfair + -ly or un- + fairly.
Questions about unfairly
- What does unfairly mean?
- Unfairly means in a manner that is unfair.
- What is unfairly in Tamil?
- Unfairly in Tamil is நியாயமற்ற முறையில், நியாயமற்ற வகையில். See Unfairly meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is unfairly?
- Unfairly is an adverb.
Words near unfairly in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unfairly (page history and authors); unfairly (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unfairly (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unfairly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unfairly (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unfairly (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unfairly (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unfairly (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unfairly (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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