evenhanded
[ee-vuh n-han-did]
- impartial; equitable: evenhanded justice.
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Origin of evenhanded
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Examples from the Web for evenhanded
Contemporary Examples
“We tried to be evenhanded, and Poitras is squarely on the side of Snowden,” Condon says.
Given a screeching demagogue and an evenhanded, mild-mannered technocrat, people will always be more drawn to the former.
To have any chance at success, Washington must end its pro-Israel favoritism in return for an evenhanded approach.
But here's the thing: the government's job is to be evenhanded, even with folks who don't like the job they're doing.
When he starts disrupting the enemy, I will begin to concede that he can be treated—remotely—as evenhanded or worthy of praise.
Historical Examples
The Thin One settled all night disputes in the most evenhanded way.
The Dew of Their YouthS. R. Crockett
Did not evenhanded justice ere-long commend the poisoned chalice to their own lips?
Daniel Webster for Young AmericansDaniel Webster
But the law is evenhanded; it levies an equal succession-tax on the transmission of badness as of goodness.
Applied EugenicsPaul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson
Word Origin and History for evenhanded
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper