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Recent Examples of unfairly
The longtime Epstein associate argues she was unfairly charged.
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Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
The station chief filed a complaint with the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General, charging that Manes had unfairly dismissed him, among other allegations.
—T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
Those small moments, when a daughter is left out, overlooked, or treated unfairly, can change how a father sees the world.
—Alex Shoemaker, Parents, 26 Sep. 2025
Upon its release, Andrew Haigh’s masterpiece was unfairly written off by the gay community — either for being too slow or for being too white-centric.
—James Factora, Them., 26 Sep. 2025
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Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
The station chief filed a complaint with the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General, charging that Manes had unfairly dismissed him, among other allegations.
—T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
Those small moments, when a daughter is left out, overlooked, or treated unfairly, can change how a father sees the world.
—Alex Shoemaker, Parents, 26 Sep. 2025
Upon its release, Andrew Haigh’s masterpiece was unfairly written off by the gay community — either for being too slow or for being too white-centric.
—James Factora, Them., 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfairly
Adverb
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Baseball is a cruelly and wonderfully unpredictable game.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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Ultimately, the court found that prosecutors had not met the burden of proof to show the animals were being neglected or cruelly mistreated.—
Hannah Dreyfus,
AZCentral.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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To protect her face, Campoy used her arm, which the squirrel clawed viciously.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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In this week's PEOPLE cover story, the matriarch, 80, recalls the scary moment a camel viciously attacked Navarone (her son with ex Marco Garibaldi) during a visit to a friend's animal sanctuary in California's San Fernando Valley.—
Brianne Tracy,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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There is a troubling suggestion of abuse, implying that Jack might have been ill-treated by his mom (and saved by Helen), rather than heartlessly abandoned.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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Especially in an instance at the start of the video, where it was pushed back rudely.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
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But the film itself offers few signs of the times—other than the epic collapse of that year’s New York Mets in the playoff race, which is rudely shown in the background.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Unfairly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfairly. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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