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Unfairness   /ənfˈɛrnəs/   Listen
Unfairness

noun
1.
Partiality that is not fair or equitable.
2.
Injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards.  Synonym: inequity.
3.
An unjust act.  Synonyms: iniquity, injustice, shabbiness.





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"Unfairness" Quotes from Famous Books



... shore. Mr. Macaulay's official correspondence gives a curious picture of his difficulties in the character of Minister of Public Worship in a black community. "The Baptists under David George are decent and orderly, but there is observable in them a great neglect of family worship, and sometimes an unfairness in their dealings. To Lady Huntingdon's Methodists, as a body, may with great justice be addressed the first verse of the third chapter of the Revelation. The lives of many of them are very disorderly, ...
— Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan
... watched his car recede and climb and vanish over Mapleborough Hill, and that I got there my first full and definite intimation that, after all, this great Change and my new wide aims in life, were not to mean indiscriminate happiness for me. I had a sense of protest, as against extreme unfairness, as I saw him go. "It is too soon," I said to myself, "to ...
— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells
... not given to spending itself on every adventitious excuse for annoyance, and debarred by conditions from any sort of retaliation. In addition to being bitterly wounded, his sporting instinct was bruised, and he chafed under the unfairness of the blow. ...
— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin
... mixed school and college. In these matters he is not only ignorant, but unfeeling and unsympathetic, extraordinarily so in view of his great capacity for pity and sweetness in other directions and of his indignant hatred of cruelty and unfairness, and it is not necessary to waste time in discussing what the common experience confutes Neither is it necessary to fly to the other extreme, and indulge in preposterous sentimentalities about the ...
— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells
... monk. There lies the unfairness of your proposal. You give up what you care for very little: I am to give up what is dearer than the whole world to me. No; I won't do it. ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant


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