fair-minded

comparative more fair-minded · superlative most fair-minded · alternative fairminded

1. Impartial and unbiased.

   I am not a fair-minded woman. It is simply that I dislike being indebted to a—to a pig.

   1943, Walter R[ollin] Brooks, Freddy and the Bean Home News, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC

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   "You pretend to be a fair-minded man." / "How absurd. How could a man of my position be fair-minded toward you? You might as well speak of a Spaniard being fair-minded toward a piece of steak."

   1922 June, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, in Tales of the Jazz Age, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published September 1922, →OCLC, part VI, page 167

   In these circumstances any fair-minded observer must regard the mishap as a stroke of sheer ill-luck.

   1961 March, “Talking of Trains: That Royal Train failure”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 135

   Synonyms: fair, fairhanded, just, candid, cold, clinical, detached, egal