unfair
adjective
- unjustly beneficial to one side
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/ / [ɐnˈfɛə(ɹ)] / /ʌnˈfɛː(ɹ)/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæġer (“ugly”), equivalent to un- + fair.
- Not fair.
“It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.”
“He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.”
- Not fair.
- Not fair.
- Not fair.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæġer (“ugly”), equivalent to un- + fair.
- to make ugly
“Those hours that with gentle work did frame / The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell / Will play the tyrants to the very same / And that unfair which fairly doth excel.”