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Recent Examples of unfairly
Employees who feel they’re being treated unfairly may start to question other decisions the company makes.
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Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
Critics have said this amounts to Latinos being unfairly racially profiled.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 16 May 2026
Ars reviewed several objections to the settlement, as well as letters from objectors who claimed that the authors’ legal team was trying to unfairly shut them out from voicing concerns.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
Others felt her comments oversimplified a complex issue and unfairly shamed Black women who choose to wear wigs and weaves.
—Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 14 May 2026
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Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
Critics have said this amounts to Latinos being unfairly racially profiled.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 16 May 2026
Ars reviewed several objections to the settlement, as well as letters from objectors who claimed that the authors’ legal team was trying to unfairly shut them out from voicing concerns.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
Others felt her comments oversimplified a complex issue and unfairly shamed Black women who choose to wear wigs and weaves.
—Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 14 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfairly
Adverb
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that cruelly sow fear are not the solution.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2026
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Before his afternoon was ended so cruelly, there were positives and negatives to take from his display.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
4 May 2026
Adverb
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Her fury at Helios employees being treated so shabbily is matched only by her disbelief at Ger and his crew’s recklessness in allowing the consoles monitoring and controlling all of Happy Valley’s life-support systems and communications with the Titan mission unstaffed.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
Adverb
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Grainy video footage from those protests reveal the brutality of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, who drag students into the street, viciously beat them and then leave them wounded on the ground.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
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Taskin then swung one viciously past Awais, a centurion in the first test, who pushed the delivery to short-leg when on 13.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 May 2026
Adverb
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Victim Nyron Shaw’s father said the driver who mowed his son down last year in Ocean Hill a day before Independence Day should face the maximum penalty for allegedly driving twice the speed limit and heartlessly taking off, leaving his son to die.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
8 Apr. 2026
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In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Ritter has disciplined Menapace after the lawmaker acted rudely or abusively to a committee clerk.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
2 May 2026
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In another famous tale, Hoja arrives at a feast wearing old and ragged clothes and is treated rudely.—
Perin Gürel,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Unfairly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfairly. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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