Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fairness
IPA transcription: [f'ɛɹnəs]
Pronunciations of fairness
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fairness, equity
    Meaning: conformity with rules or standards; "the judge recognized the fairness of my claim"
Usage examples
  • It is only in the latter light that it can be admitted to have any pretensions to fairness.
  • 'I got them this morning - cook - and I'd quite forgotten,' he explained as he divided them with scrupulous fairness into four heaps.
  • And we are sometimes too apt to count all that love of common fairness, and that hatred of foul play, as a sure sign of some sympathy with the hated truth itself.
  • And as for me, said Sir Launcelot, I promise you upon this book that an I may meet with him, either with fairness or foulness I shall bring him to this court, or else I shall die therefore.
  • "I'm with you--don't you see?--still." And as to make it more vivid to him she rose from her chair--a movement she seldom risked in these days--and showed herself, all draped and all soft, in her fairness and slimness.
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