unfairly
/ənfˈɛɹli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a manner that is unfair.
Example Sentences
- "The carnival games were unfairly difficult, and hardly anybody won a prize."
- "As a result, many Black people remained unfairly enslaved and indentured in the so-called free territory. This was not legal slavery (also known as de jure slavery), but slavery in practice (de facto slavery)."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more unfairly (comparative)
most unfairly (superlative)