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unfair

/ʌnˈfɛɚ/ adjective A2
  1. Not just. · It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.

Comparative unfairer · Superlative unfairest

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I cheered him up and persuaded him to stay to the end because it would be unfair to Miss Stacy if he didn’t.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 269 · C1
“Of course you’ll win one of them anyhow,” said Jane, who couldn’t understand how the faculty could be so unfair as to order it otherwise.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 303 · C1
“Since nearly ten weeks have elapsed, then, and nothing has been heard, it is not unfair to suppose that for some reason the treaty has not reached them.”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 82 · B2
“He thinks that it was unfair on our part to hunt his brother-in-law down when he, of his own free will, had told us the secret.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 129 · C1

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