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
• 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
• 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
• Fair or unfair, Verdugo will always be attached to the Betts trade.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Lopes has taken an unfair amount of blame for Milwaukee’s leaky defense in the paint.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• The union said the workers are receiving unfair pay for their labor.
  — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 2024
• This has led to a wave of lawsuits against the companies, arguing that the practice is unfair.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
• Jones’ lawyer, Norm Pattis, portrayed the trial as unfair and pledged to appeal.
  — Dave Collins, ajc, 13 Oct. 2022
• There are many layers of shame that come from the unfair judgments people make about the severely obese.
  — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024
• The defense said that the judge improperly took the side of the other brothers and made unfair rulings against Haresh.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• Youngkin said the change would create an unfair, greater burden of proof on employers.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• The criteria should be clear but not so rigid that they cannot be adjusted if something is unfair down the road.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• Critics claimed Biden’s plan would have cost more than $400 billion and was unfair to those who paid their loans or never took on debt.
  — Gabriel Hays, Fox News, 1 July 2023
• Expecting Harbaugh or any coach to match Reid’s record would be unfair.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024
• Boudin said the claims were unfair and largely the product of police resistance to his reforms.
  — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
• Yet to draw the conclusion that the Welcome Corps is an admission of defeat would be unfair.
  — Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
• The comments, predictably, are filled with people saying that this is unfair.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
• The case highlighted the unfair and arbitrary nature of the parole and probation system in the United States.
  — Jelani Cobb, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
• But a number of Democrats saw President Biden’s sweeping clemency for his son — clearing him of any federal crimes committed during an 11-year period — as fueling the kind of arguments of a rigged and unfair system that are pushed by Trump.
  — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024