Unfairly

Definition: Unfairly

Unfairly

Adverb

1. In an unfair manner; "they dealt with him unfairly".

Date "unfairly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Antonym: fairly (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Unfairly

English words defined with "unfairly": gerrymander ♦ Miscolor ♦ sandbag ♦ Tamperer, To get the best of ♦ Underboard, untruly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unfairly": Mirror ♦ Question ♦ to receive the bean, TO WELL. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

But Scott rejected me, c'est la vie, life is cruel, treats you unfairly, even so, a God there must be, Mini Me, you complete me. (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, Human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. (Crimes and Misdemeanors; writing credit: Woody Allen)

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Domain	Title
Books	Unfairly Structured Cities (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	If on the application of that owner, the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal, provided for by Section VI of this Part, or an arbitrator appointed by that Tribunal is satisfied that the conditions of the sale or measures taken by the Government of the State in question outside its general legislation were unfairly prejudicial to the price obtained, they shall have discretion to award to the owner equitable compensation to be paid by that State. (reference)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		It is not advisable to unfairly terminate an agency's contract. (references)
Civil Liberties	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Members of the Rastafarian community have complained that law enforcement officials unfairly target them. (references)
	Peru	The reporters claimed that they were tortured, accused of terrorism, and unfairly imprisoned while Cueva was in charge of the antiterrorism unit in Ancash. (references)
	Eritrea	In previous years and until September, some journalists claimed that they were targeted unfairly for the draft and complained of routine harassment by unknown individuals who they believe work for the Government. (references)
Economic History	France	Private sector firms argue that these arrangements unfairly reduce state-owned firms' financing costs. (references)
	Georgia	In some cases, foreign investors believe that the Government and the courts have acted against them unfairly and in direct contradiction to the law. (references)
	Israel	Until changes in the law are made by GOI, opportunities for American beef exports of non-kosher, high quality beef will continue to be unfairly restricted. (references)
Human Rights	Peru	The councils also removed judges associated with corrupt practices and reinstated others who had been unfairly separated. (references)
	Ireland	A government ombudsman investigates complaints by those who believe that they have been unfairly treated by the Government or local authorities. (references)
	Mauritania	The approval and publication in June of the new Personal Status code created a written framework to regularize the prevailing Shari'a-based family law, which without defining legislation had been applied unfairly. (references)
Minorities	Austria	The Government responded to the ruling by stating that it would submit implementing legislation to Parliament in 2002. The Governor of Carinthia, Joerg Haider, announced that he would not honor the Court's decision and alleged that the President of the Constitutional Court was influenced unfairly by Slovene groups. (references)
Political Economy	POLAND	There is also a protest/appeals process for tenders thought to be unfairly awarded. (references)
	Argentina	A variety of cases exist where U.S. companies have been unfairly affected by what they consider to be arbitrary and capricious enforcement of laws. (references)
Trade	Nigeria	A special duty may be imposed on imported goods if the government feels that such goods are being dumped or unfairly subsidized, thus threatening established or potential domestic industries. (references)
	Venezuela	The Venezuelan Ministry of Production and Commerce (MPC) has used its authority to issue sanitary and phytosanitary import permits to unfairly prohibit the importation of certain agricultural products (most notably fruit, poultry and pork) which compete with domestic products. (references)
Women	South Africa	The law prohibits gender discrimination on the following grounds: Gender-based violence; FGM; preventing women from inheriting family property; practices which impair the dignity and equality of women; policies that unfairly limit access to land rights or other resources; discrimination based on pregnancy; limiting access to social services and benefits; and denial of access to opportunities. (references)
Worker Rights	Bahamas	Some employers complain that the industrial tribunal is biased unfairly in favor of employees. (references)
	Taiwan	Under the Labor Union Law, employers may not refuse employment to, dismiss, or otherwise unfairly treat workers because they are labor union members. (references)
	Chile	Employees who believe they have been dismissed unfairly or dismissed owing to their trade union activities file complaints with the Ministry of Labor and ultimately, the labor tribunals. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	The dangerous antimilitary sentiment discouraged defense spending and unfairly disparaged the men and women who serve in our Armed Forces.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	However, as long as this suspension must remain in effect, it will be important for the next Administration and the Congress to take whatever actions are necessary to ensure that the burden does not fall unfairly on our Nation's farmers.
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"Unfairly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unfairly" is used about 311 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	311	16,365

Language		Translations for "unfairly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		不合理地. (various references)

French		injustement, déloyalement. (various references)

German		unfair (unequable, unfair, unright, unsporting, wrong). (various references)

Greek		άδικα. (various references)

Hungarian		tisztességtelenül (on the cross, to rig up, to trade on), méltánytalanul, igazságtalanul (undeservedly, wrong). (various references)

Italian		sleale (disloyal, faithless, treacherous, unequable, unequably, unfair, unright). (various references)

Pig Latin		airlyunfay

Romanian		urât (abominable, bad, badly, boredom, dirty, ennui, filthy, foul, haggish, hateful, hideous, ill-featured, little, low, megrim, naughty, opprobrious, sour, squalid, tedium, ugly, unbecoming, unsightly, vicious, villainous, wicked). (various references)

Russian		несправедливо (unjustly, wrongfully, wrongly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepravedno (wrongfully, wrongly). (various references)

Spanish		sucio (crummy, dingy, dirty, feculent, filthy, foul, foully, grubby, impure, low, lower, nasty, soiled, unclean, unwashed). (various references)

Turkish		insafsızca (mercilessly, unjustly, unmercifully). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	inique. (various references)
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Misspellings
	"Unfairly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unarily, unfail. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unfairly" (pronounced unfe"rlē)
5	-f e" r l ē	fairly.
4	-e" r l ē	barely, rarely, squarely.
3	-r l ē	austerely, barley, cavalierly, Charley, Charlie, clearly, dearly, demurely, gnarly, hourly, merely, nearly, parley, poorly, prematurely, purely, securely, severely, sincerely, sorely, surely, yearly.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-i-l-n-r-u-y"
	-2 letters: fairly, unfair, uranyl, urinal.
	-3 letters: fairy, filar, final, flair, frail, furan, infra, inlay, lunar, rainy, riyal, ulnar, unary, unify, unlay, urial, yulan.
	-4 letters: airn, airy, alif, anil, aril, aryl, ayin, fail, fain, fair, farl, faun, fiar, fila, firn, flan, flay, fray, furl, fury, inly, lain, lair, lari, liar, liny, lira, luna, luny, naif.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-i-l-n-r-u-y"
	+1 letter: ruffianly.
	+3 letters: nefariously.
	+4 letters: insufferably, interfaculty, requalifying, unfamiliarly, unprofitably.
	+5 letters: centrifugally, frustratingly, infuriatingly, prequalifying, refundability, unfalteringly, unfamiliarity.
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