Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
even-handed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Doug Pray's first film is an impressively even-handed documentary on the Seattle music scene.
▪ Local magistrates are expected to respect the law and provide even-handed justice.
▪ The BBC has the reputation of being even-handed in its coverage of election news.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ My response is, in brief, that no-supply is not more neutral than even-handed supply.
▪ One might as well speak of even-handed socialism.
▪ Second, some feel that no supply of arms to the combatants, however even-handed, is compatible with neutrality.
▪ The success of Reuter's agency lay in its objectivity, speed, and even-handed treatment of clients.
▪ With even-handed ridicule, John Mortimer spends much of this novel making you laugh at both.
▪ Would they riot or would they be relieved that an even-handed exercise had removed their tormentors?
▪ Yet this exceedingly sensible system has not always been applied in an even-handed manner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
even-handed
also evenhanded, "impartial, equitable, rightly balanced," c.1600, from even (adj.) + -handed. Related: even-handedly; even-handedness.
Wiktionary
even-handed
a. Treating fairly.
Usage examples of "even-handed".
Plus all the weekly moral dilemmas and double binds his even-handed bureaucratic heroism gets Captain Frank Furillo into.
My hope is that Texicans would be more, say, even-handed in the application of the law.