Who is fair

Why should I have to do all the cleaning? It's not fair! It's not fair that she's allowed to go and I'm not! It's not fair to blame me for everything! B1 If something is fair, it is reasonable and is what you expect or deserve :.

I thought it was a fair price that she was offering. All the workers want is a fair wage for the work that they do. If a game or competition is fair, it is done according to the rules :. It was a fair fight. I think it's only fair to tell you that we have had over applications for this job. I think it's fair to say that you've done less of the work than I have. He's done the job badly but, to be fair, I gave him very little time to do it.

Come on, it's my turn. Fair's fair! He didn't think that he got a fair hearing in court. We won the match fair and square. If you hit someone fair and square on a particular part of their body , you hit that person hard, exactly on that part :.

He hit me fair and square on the nose. A fair justice system is a fundamental part of a civilized society. I suppose his criticism was fair comment. Everyone should have a fair slice of the cake. They claimed that the election had been fair, but really it was a sham.

This job has more than its fair share of frustrations. Justice and fairness. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: True, real, false, and unreal. Linguistics: connecting words which express a contrast. Accurate and exact. A2 of skin pale , or of hair pale yellow or gold :.

She's got fair hair and blue eyes. All my family are fair - skinned. Hair colour. C2 [ before noun ] quite large :. We've had a fair amount of rain this week. We've had a fair number of applicants. It's a fair - sized garden. Big and quite big. C2 [ after verb ] neither very good nor very bad :.

I'm still a bit nervous and concerned, but I'm just fully gonna put all my faith into Ri's lawyer and hope for honest witnesses and a fair judge. Is it too much to ask for a fair game of hockey? StanleyCupFinals GoStars.

He was going the right direction the whole time. True or False? As a principal, I have the responsibility to ensure compliance and create a fair and balanced environment for all students.

If the shifts among women and older voters seen in the Post-ABC poll reflect an actual shift in the electorate — a fair assumption based on a wide range of other state and national polls — that seems very difficult to do. We believe we are fair and reasonable partners and have no incentive to enforce the restrictions more broadly than necessary. Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake. Vicky Ward was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for 11 years.

Frustrating as regulars find these fair -weather exercise interlopers, they were also all beginners once, he says. Perhaps it always seems that way at the time, but surely we face our fair share right now. To be fair , no artist had ever been asked to, or could have pulled it off if they had. Finally, let me ask the general reader to put aside all prejudice, and give both sides a fair hearing.

Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair! He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair. Mary is fair as the morning dew— Cheeks of roses and ribbons of blue! In addition to the idioms beginning with fair.

New Word List Word List. Save This Word! The chief medical officer pronounced him in a fair way to recovery. British , Australian. Verb Phrases. See synonyms for fair on Thesaurus.

Phrases Related to fair a fair crack of the whip a fair hearing a fair shake. Style: MLA. More Definitions for fair. English Language Learners Definition of fair. Kids Definition of fair Entry 1 of 3. Other Words from fair fairness noun. Kids Definition of fair Entry 2 of 3. Kids Definition of fair Entry 3 of 3. Legal Definition of fair.

Other Words from fair fairly adverb. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Test your vocabulary with our question quiz! Love words? Need even more definitions? Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms The same, but different.

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