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
  • Jones, who lives and works in Austin, Texas, has bashed the trial as unfair and an assault on free speech rights.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Having to choose one over the other was awkward and would have been unfair in the end to somebody.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2022
  • 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
  • One loss, however unfair or owing to a strange bounce here and there, can change the course of a team’s season.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • 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
  • That was going to be unfair to every single girl on this team.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Fair or unfair, Verdugo will always be attached to the Betts trade.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But keeping him on the roster this season was unfair to the other players who have worked to earn the chance to play in the majors.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2022
  • But the state Supreme Court ruled the map was unfair and violated the state constitution, and the judges drew a new map.
    — David G. Savage, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Still, Leavitt said the high tariffs are unfair for Americans, and the United States should charge the same, in kind.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
  • But the effort has been called unfair by some who have already repaid their debt.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • In a 4-3 ruling, the justices ruled that the case could move ahead based on the state law regarding unfair trade practices.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Lopes has taken an unfair amount of blame for Milwaukee’s leaky defense in the paint.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • And from my view talking to many people, some has been wildly unfair.
    — Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The union said the workers are receiving unfair pay for their labor.
    — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 2024
  • How the rules of spades change depending on the house and the city and how the arbitrariness of this feels democratic but is just unfair?
    — Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Adding the Cardinals star to a Dodgers roster that's already the clear top unit in the league would be borderline unfair.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This has led to a wave of lawsuits against the companies, arguing that the practice is unfair.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But critics argue that no taxes on tips is a costly, unfair tax break that will benefit few lower-income Americans.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 18 May 2025

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