Fairly

[fair·ly]

When you do something fairly, you treat everyone with equal consideration. Sharing a pizza fairly between six people is easy: just give each person one slice.

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In a fairmanner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.

Adverb
to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason"

Adverb
in a fair evenhanded manner; "deal fairly with one another"

Adverb
in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly"


adv.
In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.

adv.
Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign traade.

adv.
Honestly; properly.

adv.
Softly; quietly; gently.


Fairly

Fair"ly, adv. 1. In a fairmanner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.
Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him.
2. Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign traade. 3. Honestly; properly.
Such means of comfort or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp.
4. Softly; quietly; gently. [Obs.] Milton.

In a fairmanner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.

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Usage Examples

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

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Other Usage Examples

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

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