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"unfairly" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often unjustly (8 letters).
Definitions
In a way that is unjust or not even-handed.
Word origin
From unfair + -ly or un- + fairly.
Used in a sentence
“The carnival games were unfairly difficult, and hardly anybody won a prize.”
“As a result, many Black people remained unfairly enslaved and indentured in the so-called free territory. This was not legal slavery (also known as de jure slavery), but slavery in practice (de facto slavery).”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“In an unjust way”8 letters
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