as in foul
not being in accordance with the rules or standards of what is fair in sport
a team that is notorious throughout the league for its record of unfair play
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Recent Examples of unfair
What was done to you was unjust, unfair, racist and wrong.
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Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
According to scholar Nadia Margolis, the key to Christine’s success with her various projects lay in her acute awareness of existing in a men’s world with a dramatically unfair power imbalance.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 23 Sep. 2025
The settlement notes that claims against the City of Prospect — including that the home-rule city engaged in unfair housing practices and interfered with the developer's attempt to purchase land — are continuing.
—Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Sep. 2025
Casting blame on Tylenol for autism wrongly positions the condition as a problem—and levies unfair guilt on moms.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 23 Sep. 2025
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Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
According to scholar Nadia Margolis, the key to Christine’s success with her various projects lay in her acute awareness of existing in a men’s world with a dramatically unfair power imbalance.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 23 Sep. 2025
The settlement notes that claims against the City of Prospect — including that the home-rule city engaged in unfair housing practices and interfered with the developer's attempt to purchase land — are continuing.
—Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Sep. 2025
Casting blame on Tylenol for autism wrongly positions the condition as a problem—and levies unfair guilt on moms.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfair
Adjective
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Instead, Rocchio walloped a fastball off the right-field foul pole for a walk-off homer, an exclamation point at the end of a regular season that culminated in an improbable AL Central crown.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Officers responded to the scene after a foul odor was reported coming from the vehicle.—
Mya Abraham,
VIBE.com,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Louisville police say anything that goes into the air or explodes is illegal for average citizens.—
James Bruggers,
The Courier-Journal,
5 July 2017
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Official fireworks shows took place over the city, and illegal pyrotechnics lit up the sky everywhere in between.—
Lisa Beebe,
Los Angeles Magazine,
5 July 2017
Adjective
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Big, nasty and physical, Kalani Sitake’s bunch controls the ball on offense and gets it back quickly on defense.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
26 Sep. 2025
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Chad Powers’ nasty protagonist should give it license to be more cutting, rather than just unimaginatively crude, in its humor.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Unfair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfair. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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