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Definition of Unfair
Unfair

To deprive of fairness or beauty.

Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal.

Related Definitions:
Artifice, Beauty, Deprive, Dishonest, Disingenuous, Fair, Fairness, Honest, Impartial, Involving, Not, Of, Or, To, Trick, Unequal, Unjust, Using


Unfair Quotations

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
John F. Kennedy

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
Pope John Paul II

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
Albert Ellis

Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.
Bill O'Reilly

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
Bill Watterson

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton Chekhov

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
Laura Bush

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
Steve Forbes

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Thomas Malthus

Unfair Translations

unfair in German is unfair, unfaire
unfair in Latin is iniquus, iniustus
unfair in Spanish is injusto


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