(superl.) Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.
(superl.) Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful.
(superl.) Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin.
(superl.) Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; -- said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day.
(superl.) Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unincumbered; open; direct; -- said of a road, passage, etc.; as, a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view.
(superl.) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
(superl.) Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement.
(superl.) Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; -- said of words, promises, etc.
(v. t.) To make smooth and flowing, as a vessel's lines.
(n.) A gathering of buyers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade.
(n.) A festival, and sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand Army fair.
(n.) A competitive exhibition of wares, farm products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale; as, the Mechanics' fair; an agricultural fair.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(2) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(3) Exposure to whole cigarette smoke from reference cigarettes results in the prompt (peak activity is 6 hrs), but fairly weak (similar to 2 fold), induction of murine pulmonary microsomal monooxygenase activity.
(4) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
(5) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
(6) So is the mock courtroom promising “justice and fairness”.
(7) Reduced mineral absorption is fairly well documented and has sound theoretical support from basic chemistry.
(8) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(9) Caries also developed in rats inoculated with reference S. mutans strains BHTR and FAIR (type b) that had been maintained in the laboratories for many years.
(10) The 61-year-old paid to transport prize-winning children to the fair in St Thomas and funded their accommodation.
(11) "We knew people would be interested in the announcement, but it's fair to say that the scale of the excitement, right across the world, took us all by surprise.
(12) Fairly frequently the patients complained about mucosal dryness and sporadically about dyspeptic symptoms, but these symptoms were not disturbing the course of the treatment.
(13) He would do the Telegraph crossword and, to be fair, would make intelligent conversation but he was a bit racist.
(14) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
(15) Everyone worked hard, but it is fair to pick out Willian because of his work-rate, quality on the ball, participation in the first goal and quality of the second.” It had been Willian’s fizzed cross, 11 minutes before the break, which Dragovic had nodded inadvertently inside Shovkovskiy’s near post to earn the hosts their initial lead.
(16) He always had a logical approach to his arguments and I would have described him as fair at the time.
(17) Progressive politics must also take into account fairness between, as well as within, generations.
(18) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(19) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
(20) It was found by this HPLC that the amino groups of PZP3 hardly reacted with FITC, whereas those of PZP1 and 2 fairly reacted, reflecting the organization of these families in the zona structure.
Justly
Definition:
(a.) In a just manner; in conformity to law, justice, or propriety; by right; honestly; fairly; accurately.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yes, they brought genius and organisational skills, for which they justly receive kudos.
(2) The above principle, of which my 24-carat Tory pupil-master was so justly proud, is now hanging by a thread, one which the Ministry of Justice's plans will finally sever.
(3) Regretting the necessity of going into closed session, Neuberger said the Treasury had argued that without reading the secret judgment of Mr Justice Mitting [in a lower court] "we cannot be wholly confident of disposing of the bank's appeal justly without considering the closed judgment".
(4) They are victims of what John Prescott and Yvette Cooper called Pathfinder slum clearance , a title justly echoing Bomber Harris's campaign to smash German cities .
(5) Hastings, Sheffield and their allies rely on the work of Fritz Fischer, a German historian who in 1961 published a justly celebrated book, based on painstaking research in the German archives, about Germany's aims in the first world war .
(6) The American author Jonathan Franzen might justly be called a perfectionist: his latest opus, Freedom, took nine years of painstaking effort to complete inside a spartan writing studio – and is now being widely acclaimed as a modern masterpiece.
(7) The legislature was just taking too long to act morally and justly.
(8) If the mot juste was always a priority – "I suppose we all have our foibles.
(9) Even a hacked-back state ought to deal with the individual justly.
(10) They are no longer proudly addressing the needs of those with learning disorders in their own community, and paid justly for the skills they have acquired and the love they expend.
(11) Jon Savage Jon Savage is a cultural commentator whose books include England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945 20 March 1966: The Who signal the start of swinging london The Who Photograph: Observer Colin Jones's justly famous photograph captures the Who at a moment of maximum combustibility: "I'd never met a band that were so antagonistic towards each other," he later recalled.
(12) The fighter said the US-led coalition to fight the militant group was a sure sign of the justness of their cause.
(13) Separately, Carsten Juste, the editor of the Jyllands-Posten, issued his own apology.
(14) However, this type of surgery has always been dreaded and the loss of the voice has been the consequence most justly feared by patients and doctors alike.
(15) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday 29 May 2009 Near homophone corner: referring to the leader comment below, a reader justly asks, "Calling Miliband and Johnson Messers may well have been an opinion but could you have meant Messrs?".
(16) The NHS has a lot that it can justly be proud about.
(17) In the final scene of the latter, Charles, the unfaithful husband (Michel Bouquet), uses the word "juste" 17 times in different ways.
(18) Justly or unjustly - and inevitably this is not a black and white issue - he is a broken leader.
(19) He notes that moral obligations to a particular patient may at times be superseded by the social obligation to allocate health care resources justly; to pursue research to benefit future patients; and to engage in preventive medicine to benefit potential patients.
(20) Carsten Juste said: "The 12 cartoons ... were not intended to be offensive, nor were they at variance with Danish law, but they have indisputably offended many Muslims, for which we apologise."