Word Finder - unfair

definition

To make ugly

synonyms

• devenustate

definition

Not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive

definition

Sorrowful; sad

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Unseemly; disgraceful

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Not fair, unjust

example

It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.

Was he being unfair, taking the easy way out?

It was unfair to string Josh along this way.

It's unfair to keep them in the dark on this matter.

You're being unfair to me, Edith.

It would be so unfair to so many people if we quit, but God almighty, it's difficult and scary.

It was unfair to punish him, but his rebuke still stung.

It would be unfair to criticize it from an exacting philosophical point of view.

Betsy absented herself, feeling it unfair to listen if the other couldn't.

But it would be unfair to accept this as evidence of a bargain.

It was a contradictory thought - and totally unfair to Josh.

The indoor manufactures followed in British prisons are not so varied as the foregoing and have been limited by the protests and objections raised by free or outside labour against alleged unfair competition.

The Portuguese thought the division unfair to them, and protested.

As a woman could not prove her case in the judicial combat, it was felt that the earlier practice gave her an unfair advantage.

The law is defective and unfair in its incidence, and it is not applicable to foreigners.

It is not unfair to connect the apparent failings of Schelling's philosophizing with the very nature of the thinker and with the historical accidents of his career.

The foreign population of the Transvaal, which was chiefly English, became in a few years more numerous than the Boers themselves, and they complained that they were deprived of all political rights, that they were subjected to unfair taxation, and that they were hampered in their industry and unjustly treated by the Dutch courts and Dutch officials.

It would be unfair to suggest that the inconvenient difficulty with which lie was thus confronted determined his policy, though he was probably insensibly influenced by it.

By every unfair means the commissioners extorted the semblance of a popular vote in favour of incorporation, and France annexed the Netherlands.

The first printed edition of the book, by a certain Blaise de Vigenbre, dates from 1585, is dedicated to the seigniory of Venice (Villehardouin, it should be said, has been accused of a rather unfair predilection for the Venetians), and speaks of either a part or the whole of the memoirs as having been printed twelve years earlier.

It was generally believed that the verdict in the former trial was an unfair one; and this opinion was most prejudicial to Cluentius.

Taken strictly his words state the position of extreme Nominalism; but even if we were not forbidden to do so by other passages, in which the doctrine of moderate Realism is adopted (under cover of the current distinction between the singular as felt and the pure universal as understood), it would still be unfair to press any passage in the writings of this period.

It was so unfair - so true.

While this is legal, many drivers consider the tactic unfair.

Reloaded, and to call it an album is really a bit unfair.

In fact, it would be unfair to ask him to do so.

When Descartes complained to the authorities of this unfair treatment, 4 the only reply was an order by which all mention of the name of Cartesianism, whether favourable or adverse, was forbidden in the university.

It would be unfair to charge what is repulsive in their letters wholly on the habits of the times, for wide familiarity with the published correspondence of similar men at the same epoch brings one acquainted with little that is so disagreeable.

Wagnerism was henceforth proclaimed out of the mouths of babes and sucklings; learned musicians felt that it had an unfair advantage; and by the time Wagner's popularity began to thrive as a persecuted heresy he had left it in the lurch.

His unpopularity in the Assembly was extreme, yet he insisted on speaking on the question of the king's trial, declared it unfair to accuse Louis for anything anterior to his acceptance of the constitution, and though implacable towards the king, as the one man who must die for the people's good, he would not allow Malesherbes, the king's counsel, to be attacked in his paper, and speaks of him as a "sage et respectable vieillard."

Late fees and finance fees, levied when payment was received, resulted in at least one lawsuit against General Electric for unfair business practices.

I soon began to realize that the whole business was inherently unfair.

This seemed unfair to people who had declined the scheme or were ineligible.

Under the unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 a contract deemed unfair may be completely void and unenforceable against a consumer.

A full account of his literary activity and ecclesiastical troubles will be found in Abbe Albert Houtin's La Question biblique au XIX e siècle (Paris, 2nd ed., 1902) and La Question biblique au XX e siècle (Paris, 1906), but the latter especially is largely unfair to the conservatives and sadly lacking in religious feeling.

Their references are guaranteed to be solid places that are safe from unfair business practices.

You may think that all these innate skills gives him an unfair advantage when it comes to seducing you.

It's the design itself that is the important thing, and it's a bit unfair to make assumptions and judge someone's character based on where she chooses to place her tattoo.

These CDs can appear unfair to investors, because if interest rates rise significantly, you do not have the option to "call" the CD.

The deals the members excluded from Destiny's Child got are considered by many in the industry to be shady and unfair.

Because of their style of music, Williams inevitably gets compared to Avril Lavigne, though many critics say that is unfair - one actually referred to her as the anti-Avril.

Gosselin claims that the contract he and his family signed was unfair, violates child labor laws, and underpaid himself and his children.

And while they ultimately earn the viewer's sympathy, their situation is so unfair and their creation and purpose is so immoral, that it's very hard to fault them for their reaction.

To compare the movie to the novel would be unfair.

I realize I'm taking advantage of you— I'm being horribly unfair, but things are just too confusing—it's so soon after, okay?

Mrs Crees and Mrs Greaves had protection against unfair dismissal because of their length of service.

Our defamation laws are tricky and, uh, a little unfair but you ca n't defame the dead.

Whatever the reason, a journalist whose story turns out to be inaccurate, unfair or untrue will very justifiably earn public derision.

The names were therefore registered in a manner which took unfair advantage of or was unfairly detrimental to the Complainant's Rights.

He is meeting the £ 2,500 bill to former Manager Brian Hughes for unfair dismissal.

The employe may be able to claim automatic unfair dismissal.