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fair-handed
fair-handed
See also: fairhanded
English
Adjective
fair-handed (comparative more fair-handed, superlative most fair-handed)
- Alternative form of fairhanded
- 2002, Vivienne Brown, Adam Smith's Discourse: Canonicity, Commerce and Conscience, ISBN 1134865449:
- In brushing aside ancient rhetoric, for example, as 'generally a very silly set of Books' (LRBL i.v.59), it is hardly presenting a fair-handed account that puts the arguments on both sides in their true light.
- 1861, John Ward Dean, John Gilmary Shea, & Henry Reed Stiles, The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning The Antiquities, History and Biography of America, Volume 4, page 214:
- The portrait was that of a dark-haired, fair-handed, dark noble, with armor beside him, whereas at the age represented, Columbus was gray, weather-worn, and utterly unlike this representation.
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