unfairly

adverb

un·​fair·​ly ˌən-ˈfer-lē How to pronounce unfairly (audio)
: in an unfair manner

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And when Rosie’s cancer diagnosis followed almost immediately, fear and Down syndrome became unfairly entangled in her mind. Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025 Westbrook is on his sixth team since leaving the Thunder in 2020 and has been unfairly criticized as a teammate along the way, Schroder said. Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 15 Nov. 2025 The vineyard says the town updated its noise guidelines the year after the business opened in 2017, unfairly clamping and shuttering the series for years at a time. Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 13 Nov. 2025 Women’s health advocates have argued for years that these blanket warnings have unfairly lumped estrogen applied to the skin and the lining of the vaginal canal with estrogen pills and injections that raise estrogen levels in the blood. Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unfairly

Word History

First Known Use

1713, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of unfairly was in 1713

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“Unfairly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unfairly. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.

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