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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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But Steffee, who has spent the past several months watching his members go back to work at data center sites where coal used to be the reason anyone had a job at all, also believes the governor got the framing wrong.

— Salena Zito, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2026
The governor, those critics said, missed an opportunity to take historic apologies he’s made for the state’s past wrongs against Indigenous people and turn them into more concrete changes.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026

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This keeps the performance informal and keeps the narrative — a staggering odyssey of injustices, abuses, travel adventures, extraordinary coincidences, losses, reunions, reflections and self-analysis — from becoming sensationalized.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
With no indication that the officers have learned from their mistreatment of her husband, Rebekah can’t shake the feeling that her family won’t be the only ones to fall victim to this kind of injustice.

— Kate Payne, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026

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