unfair

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:07:12

Un*fair" (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + fair.]

To deprive of fairness or beauty.

[R.]

Shak.

 

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Un*fair", a. [AS. unfaeger unlovely. See Un- not, and Fair, a.]

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

You come, like an unfair merchant, to charge me with being in your debt. Swift.

-- Un*fair"ly, adv -- Un*fair"ness, n.

 

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