Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Just and impartial; not prejudiced.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Judging fairly and justly; forming just and correct opinions; upright.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
unbiased andimpartial
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a person; just and impartial; not prejudiced
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Examples
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A former justice minister, the soft-spoken Abdel Jalil was described as a "fair-minded technocrat" in a U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.
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Urging the Hollywood censor to continue his work, Roosevelt wrote, “You are the kind of Czar that nobody could call ‘a Dictator’ because you are fair-minded and do not use a whip but still get things done for the general good.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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It is the fence-riders who struggle to seem fair-minded and accepting who present the most dangerous affront because they themselves may not even realize just how much their struggle with racist thinking affects everything that they say and do.
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It's time for highlights, and the fair-minded Director reminds, I'm usually drawn to classic, timeless looks, but I can be adventurous if a piece really catches my eye.
Anisha Lakhani: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's Wonderland: NYFW 2011 Reflections and Fashion at Lincoln Center Projections Anisha Lakhani 2011
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In Predator 2, the bad guys - for all their monomaniacal predatory focus - are fair-minded enough to honor a human prey's victory.
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Patrick Smith's "Passage to Peking" Oxford University Press, 591 pages, $34.95 , an acerbic and fair-minded study, examines an obscure historical episode from 1954, when left-wing sympathizers from the Labour Party set off to visit Mao's China, a trip that would likely never have taken place if not for what Mr. Smith calls the "affronted patriotism" of the British in the face of American power.
They Never Got Over Yorktown Richard B. Woodward 2011
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Looked at from the north of England – or indeed by any fair-minded observer – this is grossly unfair.
No wonder the coalition hasn't got many friends in the north | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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It's time for highlights, and the fair-minded Director reminds, I'm usually drawn to classic, timeless looks, but I can be adventurous if a piece really catches my eye.
Anisha Lakhani: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's Wonderland: NYFW 2011 Reflections and Fashion at Lincoln Center Projections Anisha Lakhani 2011
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Looked at from the north of England – or indeed by any fair-minded observer – this is grossly unfair.
No wonder the coalition hasn't got many friends in the north | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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It's time for highlights, and the fair-minded Director reminds, I'm usually drawn to classic, timeless looks, but I can be adventurous if a piece really catches my eye.
Anisha Lakhani: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's Wonderland: NYFW 2011 Reflections and Fashion at Lincoln Center Projections Anisha Lakhani 2011
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