even-minded
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- even-mindedness noun
Example Sentences
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Mr. Garrison deftly sidesteps gay stereotype in his role as the ex-children’s book editor Robert, the more even-minded of the couple next door.
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2011
Slug and Crawler, Mrs. Tempest's carriage horses, sleek even-minded bays, had been at Brighton, and so had Vixen's beautiful thorough-bred, and a handsome brown for the groom; but all the rest had stayed in Hampshire.
From Vixen, Volume I. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Being an even-minded person, however, he admitted that his own behavior had not been above suspicion on the day the crime was discovered.
From The Postmaster's Daughter by Tracy, Louis
He's always been so big and healthy and even-minded, you couldn't tell him anything, except what you could print right out in black and white.
From The Real Adventure by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
He had left, cool, well-balanced, even-minded; he had returned, so far as his inner moments were concerned, in a trance, a state of absorption.
From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram
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