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raw deal

noun

Definition of raw deal

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 Big 12 commissioner was in Fort Worth on Monday to meet the new director of athletics at TCU, and the topic of conversation is how his league has performed this postseason, specifically the raw deals for both BYU and Arizona State. — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2025 Whether the Blues hiring Montgomery and moving on from Bannister becomes reality or remains a rumor, the remote possibility would be a very raw deal for Bannister. — Jeremy Rutherford, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024 Lil Rel Howery, effortlessly funny in most of his other films, gets an equally raw deal as Moose, the Sancho Panza to Harold’s Don Quixote. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 July 2024 But lots of people get raw deals, pick themselves up and get the job done. — WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for raw deal

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More than 45 years after the first Friday the 13th, Brad Caleb Kane is righting a wrong from the set of the 1980 slasher.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
Right on the trend and wrong on the calendar is a way to lose money as old as investing itself.

— Milos Maricic, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026

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Advertisement Dialogue does not mean abandoning our values, excusing aggression, or accepting injustice.

— Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
Al Sharpton Al Sharpton is a minister, activist, and one of the nation’s most distinguished leaders in the fight against injustice.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026

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