unfair

Example Sentences

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Martin Puchner, an English professor, said the current grading system always felt unfair to the most accomplished students.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

It is inaccurate and unfair to characterize work produced in the manner described by any of these authors as “AI-generated.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Eventually we learned I had an immune condition; I also had mono, which felt cosmically unfair considering I had not yet been kissed and suspected I’d contracted it from the skating rink water fountain.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

When asked if he felt it was "unfair" that the teams had to play in Cardiff just five days after their respective play-off heartbreaks, O'Neill said "we knew the situation coming into it".

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

By contrast, Durham’s leading white newspaper denounced the idea of a boycott, calling it “dynamite” and “a distasteful aggressive suggestion...quite unfair to the theaters.”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson