Unduly vs Unfair - What's the difference?
unduly | unfair |
Undeservedly, not warranted.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=8 Not fair, unjust.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=John T. Jost
, title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?
, volume=100, issue=2, page=162
, magazine=(American Scientist)
As an adverb unduly
is undeservedly, not warranted.As an adjective unfair is
not fair, unjust.unduly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
citation, passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
unfair
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair .}}
- It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.
