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[法] 不公平, 不公正, 不正当



    unfairness
    [ noun ]
    1. partiality that is not fair or equitable

    2. <noun.cognition>
    3. injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards

    4. <noun.attribute>
    5. an unjust act

    6. <noun.act>


    Unfair \Un*fair"\, a. [AS. unf[ae]ger 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.

    1. Starting in 1995, up to 7,700 Irish would receive visas annually under a "diversity" provision of the bill designed to offset the unfairness of past immigration formulas.
    2. Many _ and not just the speaker's supporters _ are bitter about what they see as the unfairness of a process that holds Wright to a new and tougher behavior standard than the one that prevailed when many of the alleged rules violations occurred.
    3. Harwood-Duffy told police he was protesting against the "unfairness" of Norway's legal system, where he served a jail term for heroin smuggling.
    4. But the court declined to dismiss Anadarko's claims that the spinoff agreements reflect "gross unfairness" and "lack of consideration."
    5. But by the time Mr. Conner captured the series 40, I couldn't avoid the feeling that there was a certain unfairness to it all.
    6. "Fairness is a very strong strain in the American people," he said, recalling the unfairness that provoked the Boston Tea Party in 1773 leading up to the American Revolution.
    7. The laws "extend injustice and unfairness by forcing large sacrifices in people's daily lives through heavy tax burdens," Doi told a news conference.
    8. "The principles of due process embodied within the United States Constitution, must not, indeed cannot, countenance such blatant unfairness," wrote Judge David A. Berchelmann Jr.
    9. "I am totally shocked," said Parker. "The unfairness of it all makes me furious." Others said they had thought Matterson might one day seek vengeance against those he held responsible for his dismissal.
    10. "The proposed settlement must be rejected because of the unfairness of the procedures that produced it," the banks said in their filing.
    11. Other critics are damned simply as 'Namierite', in some cases with gross unfairness. The same defensive ardour gives rise to perverse omissions and judgments.
    12. Mr. Quayle concluded that the problem lay less in his own limitations than in the unfairness of the press and in the dubious loyalty of the veteran political hands assigned him by the Bush campaign high command.
    13. "There is some unfairness in that those weapons are still being produced.
    14. Such a departure from normal accountability standards, so important in the particularly delicate area of criminal investigation and prosecution, is inconsistent with our democratic traditions and carries great potential for individual unfairness.
    15. Despite the alleged unfairness of the deal, PaineWebber Corp. issued an opinion overvaluing the Calmark subsidiary's assets so that the deal could go forward, the suit said.
    16. "I have a great sense of unfairness for my client when you rebuke defense counsel," Sullivan, who denied he had violated the order, told the judge after the midday recess.
    17. "UNO has told us they anticipated an unbalanced campaign, and they have entered the race with this knowledge," so the alleged unfairness cannot be used now to invalidate the elections, Riza said.
    18. He said the verdict showed the "patent unfairness" of a multidefendant trial, which took 17 months and was one of the longest federal criminal trials ever.
    19. "I'd like to be the one to go to Atlantic City because I won the first pageant fair and square," she said, "and there was bias and unfairness in the second." She told The Washington Times that she plans to sue the Miss America Pageant.
    20. The prosecution of 38-year-old Clarence Brandley was marked by "blatant unfairness," the court said in granting the nine-year Death Row inmate a new trial.
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