as in wrong
unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this
customers affected by the increase in the service fee complained they were getting a raw deal
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Recent Examples of raw deal
The Kings gave him 22 million reasons to get over it — the total dollar value of his new two-year contract extension — leaving Rangers fans as the ones who truly got the raw deal.
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Vincent Z. Mercogliano,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Vincent Z. Mercogliano,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raw deal
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Brown, though, is in the prime of his career and no doubt eager to prove the Celtics wrong for trading him after a decade in Boston.
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Everything that can go wrong goes worse.
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The Hanna’s Town Resolves, a document signed along Forbes Road in 1775 by citizens of Westmoreland County, protested the injustices of the British Parliament.
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Wherever Kelly Davis looked injustice in the eye, or inequity or the misuse of authority, outrage surely followed.
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“Raw deal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raw%20deal. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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