as in foul
not being in accordance with the rules or standards of what is fair in sport
a team that is notorious throughout the league for its record of unfair play
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Recent Examples of unfair
This seems rather unfair to me, given that the crafts work on the 2024 films, which is what voters were supposed to be evaluating, was no less impressive than on the earlier films.
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Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
There is concern however that your process of gathering information from the victims has been unfair.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
And even if removed from office by the court, Mr. Yoon may continue to try to mobilize his dwindling base of conservative-leaning supporters, who consider the impeachment unfair.
—Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2024
This bill was so unfair to all of us Native Hawaiians.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
There is concern however that your process of gathering information from the victims has been unfair.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
And even if removed from office by the court, Mr. Yoon may continue to try to mobilize his dwindling base of conservative-leaning supporters, who consider the impeachment unfair.
—Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2024
This bill was so unfair to all of us Native Hawaiians.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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After Russian ship docks to space station, astronauts report a foul smell Around these parts, the usual response to a foul smell is a glance in the dog's direction.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2024
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The scent of burning tobacco could be a crucial offering to spirits and deities, and foul smells might be used to drive away evil forces.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 26 Nov. 2024
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Louisville police say anything that goes into the air or explodes is illegal for average citizens.James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 5 July 2017
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Official fireworks shows took place over the city, and illegal pyrotechnics lit up the sky everywhere in between.Lisa Beebe, Los Angeles Magazine, 5 July 2017
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At its simplest, while tracking cookies are a nasty underpin to the internet, they can be seen and controlled, whether by those website popups or electing to use some form of private browsing that blocks such cookies altogether.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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But the only bacteria raw or pasteurized milk contain are the nasty kind—salmonella, campylobacter and the like, according to the FDA.Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Unfair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfair. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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