How to Use unfairly in a Sentence

unfairly

adverb
  • These hosts feel they have been unfairly looped in with big landlords.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Holofcener feels she has been unfairly placed in a too-narrow niche.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 July 2024
  • His own reign, so unfairly cut short, had been the greatest of eras.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Arguments were made he was unfairly left off the team last time around.
    — Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • His goal is to restore what’s been unfairly plundered by the white man.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Perhaps they’ve been unfairly blamed for the actions of the men in their lives.
    — Gisele Barreto Fetterman, ELLE, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Stocks that get unfairly punished can wind up as great bargains.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Since then, he's used his clout and white-man privilege to smear her in the courts unfairly.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • But minds were made up right then, and perhaps not entirely unfairly.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 29 July 2021
  • Ward was called unfairly for pass interference late in the game.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2020
  • But the Bills, unfairly, were branded as losers for dropping those games.
    — Barry Wilner, ajc, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Sagorac feels he has been unfairly villainized and done nothing wrong.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Boredom has been unfairly lumped with laziness.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The cut — unfairly cast as the bridesmaid of brisket — comes from the cow’s less fatty chest muscle, called the flat.
    — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The group has been unfairly caught up in the selloff in software names like Salesforce .
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 9 May 2026
  • Lopez blasted the idea that such rules would unfairly harm working-class and poor families.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
  • But the boomers, most of whom were too young then even to know what was going on, get the credit (or, just as unfairly, the blame).
    — The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Some small-time hosts feel the law unfairly loops them in with professional landlords.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Near the start of the novel, John gets unfairly expelled from the starship.
    — Stephanie Burt, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Doubt creeps in — unfairly, unjustly — no matter how hard those growing minds fight to hold it back.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Perhaps too feisty and brusque than some unfairly find acceptable in a woman.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
  • Thibodeau has been unfairly maligned for his hard-driving approach to the game.
    — Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But a year ago, George Floyd's life was taken unfairly by forces meant to protect it.
    — Kevin Sievert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2021
  • Some have expressed the view that police treat people of color unfairly.
    — chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2021
  • In other words, the goal is to avoid unfairly demonizing all parabens.
    — Deanna Pai, Allure, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Without the right to strike, the scales are tipped unfairly in management’s favor.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Both men were mocked endlessly in their lifetimes, and not always unfairly.
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Those critiques, fairly or unfairly, are aimed at the Matadors’ first-year head coach.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Many fans felt as though he had been targeted unfairly and the move has been widely debated for years.
    — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Push them hard enough, treat them unfairly for long enough and even our most loyal partners will start shopping around for better deals.
    — Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2024

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