UNFAIRNESS Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

unfairness

noun

Definition of unfairness

as in injustice

the state of being unfair or unjust the transparent unfairness of the referee's decision made her furious

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as in wrong

unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this it would be no unfairness to the article's second author to characterize his contributions as minimal

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Recent Examples of unfairness Yet the combination of grievance politics, inter-generational unfairness and an inescapable sense of decline is what makes France feel so fragile despite its size and its still considerable strengths. — Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026 Demonstrations began in the summer as students decried perceived unfairness in the country’s examination system. — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026 From there, Diamantis went on a remote media tour to bewail the unfairness of it all. — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026 Resistance can arise from personal psychological reasons, employee predisposition or views of unfairness. — John Radman, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 But Turner’s claim treats the continued existence of unfairness as proof that legal equality does not exist. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026 For me, the closest cinema has come capturing that randomness and unfairness is Jane Campion’s beautiful and meditative Bright Star, which tells the love story of Romantic poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne and of Keats’ death at 25 of tuberculosis. — Sarah Chihaya, Vulture, 16 July 2026 The alleged unfairness of the contract wasn’t the legal problem. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 9 July 2026 Seeking to address that perceived unfairness and force other policy changes, Trump in his second term imposed a series of tariffs on nearly every country, including Mexico and Canada. — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 1 July 2026

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Noun

Yet some parents respond as though their children have suffered a serious injustice.

— Jonathan Alpert OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Saturday’s mobilization follows calls on social media to revive the yellow vest movement, which emerged in 2018 against social injustice.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of injustice

Noun

By his own account, the call went from early to wrong to decent, and now some of his clients are calling it crowded.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026
More than 45 years after the first Friday the 13th, Brad Caleb Kane is righting a wrong from the set of the 1980 slasher.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026

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