a raw deal

noun

: unfair treatment

We're getting a raw deal with the new tax laws.

Examples of a raw deal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Much of the country has come to see its commitments to free trade, collective security, and global institutions not as sources of American primacy but as a raw deal—a way for the world to free-ride on American power. — Ian Bremmer, Time, 25 June 2026

But there may be a grain of truth to Gen Z’s sense of getting a raw deal in the current employment market. — Mark C. Perna, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2026

Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday dismissed the Board of Peace as a raw deal for Israel and called for its dissolution. — Samy Magdy, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2026

Progressive advocates blasted Democrats for supporting the map and called it a raw deal for Cincinnati voters in particular. — Haley Bemiller, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Nov. 2025

Its songs are filled with workingmen getting a raw deal—losing a job, losing a mortgaged house to a bank, owing money, accepting work for a gangster, bearing the burden of a boss’s disfavor, being broke and turning to crime, trying to live with the trauma of military service in the Vietnam War. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2025

Listen to him bum-rush a workers’ union meeting and begin describing, with over-enthusiastic earnestness, how dogs get a raw deal. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025

Oldest kids always get a raw deal. — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025

Unfortunately for many Internet users, the current cable layout leaves them with a bit of a raw deal. — IEEE Spectrum, 6 June 2022

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