How to Use unfair in a Sentence

unfair

adjective
  • It's unfair for them to be allowed to leave early if we can't.
  • It seems unfair to single her out for criticism.
  • The company has been accused of unfair labor practices.
  • This opened her eyes to many other unfair things in the world.
    Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024
  • There's simply, and kind of on their face, very unfair.
    Abc News, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Confiding in my close friends seemed unfair to them and to Will and me.
    Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Icks can be silly and maybe even unfair (ahem, the person turned off by men in scarves).
    Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 28 Oct. 2024
  • This seemed unfair to me at the time, since Nina was an actual teen-ager like me.
    Molly Ringwald, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • When a fish is hurt, the angler has an unfair advantage.
    Brandon Sneed, New York Times, 10 July 2023
  • Musk’s move has riled up some high-profile users and pleased some right-wing figures and Musk fans who thought the marks were unfair.
    Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The strike is based on the union’s claim that the UC response to campus protests has amounted to unfair labor practices.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
  • Tesla will be forced to designate 4 of the stalls as special, and give them an unfair share of the power.
    Brad Templeton, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Fair or unfair, Verdugo will always be attached to the Betts trade.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Hobo Dave is the post surf shesh acoustic punk guitar archetype so much so this whole playlist should be him, but that would be unfair.
    Matt Thompson, Spin, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Lopes has taken an unfair amount of blame for Milwaukee’s leaky defense in the paint.
    Brian Sampson, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The union said the workers are receiving unfair pay for their labor.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 2024
  • This has led to a wave of lawsuits against the companies, arguing that the practice is unfair.
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
  • There are many layers of shame that come from the unfair judgments people make about the severely obese.
    Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The defense said that the judge improperly took the side of the other brothers and made unfair rulings against Haresh.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • Youngkin said the change would create an unfair, greater burden of proof on employers.
    Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The criteria should be clear but not so rigid that they cannot be adjusted if something is unfair down the road.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Critics claimed Biden’s plan would have cost more than $400 billion and was unfair to those who paid their loans or never took on debt.
    Gabriel Hays, Fox News, 1 July 2023
  • Expecting Harbaugh or any coach to match Reid’s record would be unfair.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Boudin said the claims were unfair and largely the product of police resistance to his reforms.
    Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Yet to draw the conclusion that the Welcome Corps is an admission of defeat would be unfair.
    Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The comments, predictably, are filled with people saying that this is unfair.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Burnes dispatched him with a trio of 89 mph changeups that were utterly unfair.
    Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2023
  • The nighttime rally marked the beginning of a three-day unfair labor practice strike.
    Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Our tastes have long been shifting in a direction that might strike any AI as baffling, not to mention deeply unfair.
    Krzysztof Pelc, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In order to create a fair system in an environment that is historically unfair, concessions need to be designed to ensure fair outcomes.
    Doug Melville, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024

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