fairhanded

Adjective

fairhanded (comparative more fairhanded, superlative most fairhanded)

1. Evenhanded, unbiased, just; treating all equally.
   • A compensation program must be viewed by the participating physicians as being fairhanded in its distribution of the income produced.1996, Group Practice Journal - Volume 45, page 22
   • C. Jay Parkinson, now chairman of Anaconda, politely registered his frustration to Lee's Adler, expressing his concern "about the fact that the papers are not always giving a balanced and fairhanded picture concerning ecological problems and their practical solutions, nor in the field of trying to...2006, Dennis L. Swibold, Copper Chorus: Mining, Politics, and the Montana Press, 1889-1959, →ISBN, page 337

   Synonyms:

   equitable, neutral, candid, cold, clinical, detached, egal, equal, evenhanded, fair-minded

2. (archaic, poetic) Beautiful and delicate.
   • Fairhanded Spring unbosoms every grace, Throws out the snowdrop and the crocus first, The daisy, primrose, violet darkly blue.1830, William Hone, The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Volume 1
   • We landed at a flight of half-ruined steps, which, still in their decay, reminded one of many a scene of the past-of many a clocked silk stocking exposed as the stiff brocade was for a moment lifted by some fairhanded “quality” debarking from her gilded barge (with black page and poodle in...1855, Andrew Wynter, Odds and Ends from an Old Drawer, page 39