Unfairly

adv. [UN-¹ 11.]

  1.  In an unfair manner; inequitably, unjustly.

1713.  Butler, Lett. to S. Clarke, i. (1716), 8. If I have … in any respect argu’d unfairly, I assure you it was without design.

a. 1768.  Secker, Serm. (1771), VII. xiii. 283. To use even those unfairly, who have used us so, is very bad: but to use any one unfairly, because Another hath used Us so, is … monstrously wicked.

1796.  [see UNDULY 1].

1848.  Kingsley, Yeast, ii. Argemone … fancying herself, and not unfairly, very intellectual.

1877.  Huxley, Physiogr., 84. It might, therefore, not unfairly be assumed that the carbonic acid … would tend to settle down in a stratum near the ground.

  2.  By unfair or foul means.

1791.  Mrs. Radcliffe, Rom. Forest, v. There were strong reasons to believe he came unfairly to his end.