unfairness

unfair | American Dictionary

unfair
adjective
us/ʌnˈfeər/
not fair :
It seems unfair to tax you both where you work and where you live.

unfairly

adverbus/ʌnˈfer·li, -ˈfær-/
The company unfairly denied her medical benefits.

unfairness

noun[ U ]us/ʌnˈfer·nəs, -ˈfær-/

unfair | Business English

unfair
adjective
uk /ʌnˈfeər/us
not morally right, or not treating people in an equal way:
Businesses argue that the tax idea is unfair because it is based on revenue, rather than profit.
We will not accept unfair treatment of individuals whether it be because of race, sex, age or religion.
Critics of the bill think that new service providers will be given an unfair advantage over cable companies with existing franchise agreements.
unfair competition/practices/subsidies
be/seem unfair to do sthIt is unfair to judge infrastructure services on the basis of return on investment.
be/seem unfair thatIt seems unfair that the Scottish and Irish fishing industries should be hardest hit when other EU countries have also contributed to the over-fishing problem.
grossly/really unfair

unfairly

adverb
Some departments claim that they were treated unfairly in the reorganization.

Examples of unfair

unfair
Having random police patrols apprehend only some "unsuccessful" attempting criminals is not unfair even when such patrols miss other attempting criminals.
As should now be clear, this was unfair.
The latter does not discriminate among all those possible rules that are not grossly unfair.
However, it really is unfair to keep asking for more.
Success and finite failure are generally conditional on fairness; looping may occur with an unfair search or computation rule.
The target should not be employers but "those whose prejudices actually cause unfair employment practices," by which they meant unions.
It's somewhat of an unfair question, of course, since almost by definition, if you have them, that's what you're working on.
Yet might these criticisms of the ageing standards that continue to inform our understanding of popular politics during the goldrushes be a little unfair ?
Firstly, this variability gives some compilers an advantage (but not an unfair advantage).
Thus, increasingly, economic integration and environmental harmonization are viewed as necessary complements, especially to stop the threat of plant relocation or unfair foreign competition.
But how unfair it would be to reduce computer science to these archaic mistakes.
As ever yone knows, there are often distinctly unfair balances of power within a population, including the power to set categories.
There were many stories of exploitation, mismanagement and unfair treatment.
None of this proves it to be somehow unfair if nobody rules at all or if social order is maintained without resorting to governance.
This emphasis on unfair trade practices suspended national planning and revitalized the market by discouraging cutthroat competition.
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