• Unfair

    Pronunciation

    • RP
    • GenAm IPA: /ÊŒnˈfɛɚ/Rhymes: -ɛə(r)

    Origin

    - + fair

    Full definition of unfair

    Adjective

    unfair

    1. Not fair, unjust.
      • 2012, John T. Jost, Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?, 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.
    2. It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.

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