unfair
A2
adj
verb
Freq #4324
Meanings
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1
adj
Not fair.
It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.
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2
verb
to make ugly
Those hours that with gentle work did frame / The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell / Will play the tyrants to the very same / And that unfair which fairly doth excel.
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3
adj
not fair
Etymology
From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæġer (“ugly”), equivalent to un- + fair.
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