UNFAIRLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfairly mean? 

• UNFAIRLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNFAIRLY has 1 sense:

1. in an unfair manner

  Familiarity information: UNFAIRLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFAIRLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an unfair manner

Synonyms:

below the belt; unfairly

Context example:

their accusations hit below the belt

Antonym:

fairly (in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating)

Pertainym:

unfair (not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception)

 Context examples 

How could you behave so unfairly by your sister?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

My dearest Mina,—I must say you tax me very unfairly with being a bad correspondent.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Shocking as was the idea, it was at least better than a death unfairly hastened, as, in the natural course of things, she must ere long be released.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

They might have difficulty dealing with their emotions and criticize you unfairly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She could not endure that such a friendship as theirs should be severed unfairly.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The guard treated him unfairly, lied about him to the warden, lost his credits, persecuted him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Or they quit their job as a marketing director, applied to law school, passed the Bar, and now defend prisoners in the Innocence Project who were incarcerated unfairly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

On the contrary, when he saw more of Captain Wentworth, saw him repeatedly by daylight, and eyed him well, he was very much struck by his personal claims, and felt that his superiority of appearance might be not unfairly balanced against her superiority of rank; and all this, assisted by his well-sounding name, enabled Sir Walter at last to prepare his pen, with a very good grace, for the insertion of the marriage in the volume of honour.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

As soon as they returned to the carriage, Mrs. Jennings was eager for information; but as Elinor wished to spread as little as possible intelligence that had in the first place been so unfairly obtained, she confined herself to the brief repetition of such simple particulars, as she felt assured that Lucy, for the sake of her own consequence, would choose to have known.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She must learn to feel that she had been mistaken with regard to both; that she had been unfairly influenced by appearances in each; that because Captain Wentworth's manners had not suited her own ideas, she had been too quick in suspecting them to indicate a character of dangerous impetuosity; and that because Mr Elliot's manners had precisely pleased her in their propriety and correctness, their general politeness and suavity, she had been too quick in receiving them as the certain result of the most correct opinions and well-regulated mind.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)