1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. fair-minded

Find the word definition

What is "fair-minded"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fair-minded
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I think he's been fair-minded in all his dealings with us.
▪ The Chairman is a fair-minded man, so will listen to any criticism of his proposals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But nowhere will be found a more sporting, fair-minded spectator.
▪ He is a fair-minded bloke on occasions - at least he has been to me.
▪ He is held to be efficient, fair-minded, scrupulously honest, and is well-liked by his colleagues.
▪ He must be a fair-minded fellow.
▪ I know that the Minister is a fair-minded man and I fear very much for his future.
▪ The Count was clearly a fair-minded man.
▪ The Minister is a fair-minded man, so he is bound to accept that there are genuine worries.
▪ The roots of the problem are evident to any fair-minded person.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fair-minded

Fair-minded \Fair"-mind`ed\, a. Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest. -- Fair"-mind`ed*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fair-minded

1754, from fair (adj.) + minded.

Wiktionary
fair-minded

a. unbiased and impartial

WordNet
fair-minded

adj. of a person; just and impartial; not prejudiced

Usage examples of "fair-minded".

Burndy had been quite cooperative whenever a reward was offered for stolen heirlooms and jewelry, returning a portion of the goods to a fair-minded detective in return for some of the cash.

Lavender composed himself to listen, thinking, "However eager I may be to fulfil my duty and break up this meeting, it behoves me as a fair-minded man to ascertain first what manner of meeting it is that I am breaking up.

I came to you because I knew that you had a fair-minded commander in Carn Carby, and I believed that his army would have the same attitude.

The cases were heard first by an administrative law judge, Jerry Thomasson, who was a fair-minded Republican.

It must be pointed out that Packer escaped punishment, for a clever Republican attorney proved that whereas the supposed crime had been committed while Colorado was a territory, the case had been tried under the criminal laws of the new state, and any fair-minded man would have to agree that that was unfair.

He could have used a bit of that himself, though he tried to be as tolerant and fair-minded as he could, dealing with all sorts of psychologies and temperaments as Commander of Gal-3.

We had lived together, over the years, with the clan Timson and their misdoings, He was known to them as a decent and fair-minded cop, as disapproving of the younger, Panda-racing, evidence-mas-saging intake to the Force as they were of the lack of discretion and criminal skils which marked the younger Timsons.