Word info

to be fair

Adverb

Meaning

to be fair (not comparable)

Synonym of in fairness

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking. Saddam Hussein

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower. Stephen Ambrose

A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all. Frank Lampard

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love. Mortimer Adler

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline. Don Baylor

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair. Daniel Keys Moran

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