English English Dictionary

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fairness in English:

1. the quality of being fair the quality of being fair



2. fair fair


Winning the competition is important. However, fair play is more important. You need to understand that winning is not the most important thing.
Fair competition is necessary for the healthy growth of industry.
Fair enough!
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
I had a dream last night, about silk and fine cloth or about equality and fair trial.
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts, Of beauty rich and rare; In history’s page let every stage, Advance Australia Fair!
In joyful strains then let us sing: “Advance Australia Fair!”
We insist that during the next three days you make decisions which are fair to all generations and which show an active concern for the environment.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
I will not say play fair but I would wish that you refrain from indiscreet acts.
Aiming at a fair selection, the test's subject will be the same for all of you scientists of the world: write a scientific publication in English!
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
She hit upon the idea of staging what she calls vintage fairs. /fɛər/
The missing 6-year-old has fair hair, green eyes and was last seen dressed in a yellow t-shirt.
a book fair / the Frankfurt Book Fair / a trade fair (=where companies show their newest products)

3. justice justice


Justice is expensive.
This figure is supposed to represent Marilyn Monroe, but I don't think it does her justice.
Making a vandal repaint a wall is ‘creative justice’.
When the trusted confidant of the person who conducted a hostile takeover of the company betrayed him, it was a sort of retributive justice.
Justice is to judge men on their own merits, not according to their names or their ideas.
So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, and who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity.
There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity — the law of nature, and of nations.
Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give to each one that to which he is entitled. Jurisprudence is the knowledge of matters divine and human, and the comprehension of what is just and what is unjust.
I'll go call somebody up from the justice department.
Out of a sense of justice, I said to the leader of the biker gang: "What you are doing is a crime! Be ashamed of yourselves!".
I must needs do him that justice to declare, that I never observed in him but an abhorrence to all base things.
In a court of justice women are more often found guilty of perjury than men.
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

English word "fairness"(justice) occurs in sets:

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