as in wrong
unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this
customers affected by the increase in the service fee complained they were getting a raw deal
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Recent Examples of raw deal
Lil Rel Howery, effortlessly funny in most of his other films, gets an equally raw deal as Moose, the Sancho Panza to Harold’s Don Quixote.
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 July 2024
But lots of people get raw deals, pick themselves up and get the job done.
—WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
Selection Sunday madness March sadness: These bubble teams were snubbed by the committee Good break or raw deal?
—Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
That’s a raw deal for someone with your interests and inclinations, but life’s full of raw deals.
—David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 27 Nov. 2020
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 July 2024
But lots of people get raw deals, pick themselves up and get the job done.
—WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
Selection Sunday madness March sadness: These bubble teams were snubbed by the committee Good break or raw deal?
—Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
That’s a raw deal for someone with your interests and inclinations, but life’s full of raw deals.
—David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 27 Nov. 2020
See All Example Sentences for raw deal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for raw deal
Noun
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The duo went on to work together in Highway to Heaven where Landon starred as a literal avenging angel, righting wrongs and looking out for people who couldn’t look out for themselves.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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With a benevolent billionaire in the governor’s office, a Democratic supermajority in the statehouse and a willing partner in City Hall, there has never been a better opportunity to right the past wrongs of racial discrimination.—
Jackson Potter,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
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Vogel also advocated for the passage of legislation that eventually acknowledged the injustice of the exile and imprisonment and provided a payment of $20,000 to Japanese American camp survivors.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Sep. 2025
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Any place where there’s injustice.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
6 Sep. 2025
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