Definition of Fairly

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Fairly

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

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

Honestly; properly.

Softly; quietly; gently.

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Fairly Quotations

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.
Thomas Jefferson

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.
Henry David Thoreau

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.
Noam Chomsky

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.
Walter Cronkite

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes

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

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.
Jack Kevorkian

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

Fairly Translations

fairly in Afrikaans is taamlik
fairly in Dutch is tamelijk
fairly in German is ordentlich
fairly in Latin is iuste
fairly in Portuguese is razoavelmente
fairly in Spanish is con justicia

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