Unfair vs Cruel - What's the difference?
unfair | cruel |
Not fair, unjust.
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, title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?
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Not nice; mean; heartless.
(slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
As adjectives the difference between unfair and cruel
is that unfair is not fair, unjust while cruel is not nice; mean; heartless.As a verb cruel is
to spoil or ruin (one's chance of success.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.
See also
* biased * cheating * discriminatory * dishonest * dishonorable * disproportionate * excessive * foul * inequitable * invidious * partial * prejudiced * underhanded * unequal * unethical * uneven * unfavorable * unjust * unjustified * unwarranted * wrong * wrongfulAntonyms
* fair * justcruel
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.
