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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Showing no partiality; fair.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Impartial; rightly balanced; equitable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Fair or impartial; unbiased.

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  • adjective fair and having no partiality.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective without partiality

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Examples

  • Obama's self-declared "evenhanded" approach to solving the Middle East "problem" would appear to consist of continually pressuring Israel to give up its secure borders while simultaneously enabling grave threats to Israel's very existence, refusing to engage the United States in taking action to halt Iran's nuclear weapons program.

    Lloyd Greif: Israel Stands Alone 2009

  • Although they bend too far backwards to be "evenhanded" with Palin, they nonetheless acknowledge her "tendency to refuse to acknowledge any error in judgment and to offer instead a version of events that could easily be proved false."

    Geoffrey Dunn: Sarah Vain and Simple 2009

  • President Obama's new, "evenhanded" policy in the Middle East is anything but fair and balanced.

    Lloyd Greif: Israel Stands Alone 2009

  • When someone like R. Crumb dominates an era, Sabin gives him a lot more space than some mindlessly "evenhanded" survey would.

    All I Want For Christmas... 2008

  • Then, on Sept. 9, he told the Washington Post that America should be "evenhanded" in its approach to the region.

    Monday, July 21, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • Then, on Sept. 9, he told the Washington Post that America should be "evenhanded" in its approach to the region.

    Thursday, July 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • When Howard Dean proposed during the 2004 campaign that the United States take a more "evenhanded" role in the peace process, he was severely criticized by prominent Democrats, and a rival for the nomination, Sen. Joe Lieberman, accused him of "selling Israel down the river" and said Dean's comments were "irresponsible."

    Thursday, January 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • As you say, many of them denounce the document as the "Roadmap to hell," and Gary Bauer calls "any attempt to be 'evenhanded' ... 'morally reprehensible'."

    Mail Call 2007

  • Unfortunately, "evenhanded" isn't in Bush's vocabulary.

    Printing: Bush and Israel: It's Politics, Stupid 2006

  • Unfortunately, "evenhanded" isn't in Bush's vocabulary.

    Bush and Israel: It's Politics, Stupid 2006

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