unfairly

English

Etymology

From unfair +‎ -ly or un- +‎ fairly.

Adverb

unfairly (comparative more unfairly, superlative most unfairly)

1. In a manner that is unfair.

   The carnival games were unfairly difficult, and hardly anybody won a prize.

   • 2022, Mary Elise Antoine, Enslaved, Indentured, Free: Five Black Women on the Upper Mississippi, 1800–1850‎^[1], Wisconsin Historical Society, →ISBN:

     As a result, many Black people remained unfairly enslaved and indentured in the so-called free territory. This was not legal slavery (also known as de jure slavery), but slavery in practice (de facto slavery).

Synonyms

• unjustly

Antonyms

• fairly
• justly

Translations

unjustly — see unjustly