More or less shrewd in demeanour? On the contrary

Usage examples of fairly.

They exhibited an ability to spin a fairly strong web and communicated largely through scents.

He was apparently about thirty years old, with a sallow, olive complexion and fairly good features, but an abnormally high forehead.

But they had come in on the space drive, and had gotten fairly close before the gravitational field had drained the power from the main coil, and it was not until the space field had broken that they had started to accelerate toward the star.

Court declared that: After a legislative body has fairly and fully investigated and acted, by fixing what it believes to be reasonable rates, the courts cannot step in and say its action shall be set aside because the courts, upon similar investigation, have come to a different conclusion as to the reasonableness of the rates fixed.

Having seen Jacopo fairly out of the harbor, Dantes proceeded to make his final adieus on board The Young Amelia, distributing so liberal a gratuity among her crew as to secure for him the good wishes of all, and expressions of cordial interest in all that concerned him.

The maxims of Roman jurisprudence, if they could fairly be transferred from private property to public dominion, would have adjudged to the emperor Honorius the guardianship of his nephew, till he had attained, at least, the fourteenth year of his age.

The aeration was fairly good, because there was a sort of tunnel running out.

The east window of this aisle is very fine in colouring, and fairly coherent in design.

Peter Brown opened up with fairly standard press questions but at question 28 he asked: Is this album a rest away from Beatles or start of a solo career?

When these proofs come fairly before the world, and are clearly seen by all who understand arithmetic, it is scarcely possible that abstinence from aliments demonstrably pernicious should not become universal.

Life had not dealt fairly with him to make him the eighth and little-prized son of an ambitionless man, a thane of moderate rank who could do nothing but breed on his long-suffering wife like a jack rabbit.

She had lots of medium-brown hair coming below her shoulders, and blue eyes, so dark that you had to be fairly close to see the blue, that were always on the go.

Fairly and Annette, dining on pancakes and juice, and Lars Aquavit, finishing a last cup of coffee.

Fairly rose, indicating that Lars Aquavit and Annette should grab their cake plates and join her for their dessert in the kitchen.

The practice was pretty fairly divided between these two, and Arabin therefore came in for the poorest share.