fair-minded
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of fair-minded
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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The judgement added: "Where is the gross misconduct? How could any fair minded member come to a reasonable belief on the facts that the claimant had committed any form of misconduct?"
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2021
He's been regarded for many years as the best left-back in the world and no one who is fair minded could ever criticise Ashley's commitment to the England shirt.
From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2012
"We feel there's no better place than Centre County from which to select fair minded individuals to sit as jurors in Jerry's case," Amendola said.
From Reuters • Feb. 1, 2012
The new Smithsonian anthology is fair minded, which is to say strangely anonymous.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2011
If I did not know that you are a fair minded man, and that there has been some hideous mistake somewhere, I'd not listen to those words even from you.
From The Short Cut by Johnson, Frank Tenney
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