Difference between fairly and unfairly
Definitions
adverb
- in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating
- to certain extent or degree
- without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner
Examples
Like, Darren, I have a fairly uncommon name - however, there are a couple of others out there.
I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!
Oh, and most of the scathe in my post was fairly mild. chouinard and I tend to substitute perjoratives for ... everything, actually.
Definitions
adverb
- in an unfair manner
Examples
These require you to face manipulative individuals, relinquish your rights unfairly or be exquisitely tactful when you'd be justified in blowing up.
Physicians and hospitals fear the practice could unfairly penalize practitioners and say there's no way to benchmark quality accurately.
It was a singular, unpreventable event that has unfairly tarred all businesses.
