Fair-minded means willing to judge everybody by the same standard. A fair-minded referee.
It is about applying the rule evenly rather than about being kind. A fair-minded person will decide against their own side, which is the whole test of it.
1adjectivefair-mindedWilling to judge everybody by the same standard.
“The fair-minded chairman lost friends on both sides.”
fair-minded is a quality.
Fair plus minded; fair here is the old sense of even or just rather than pale.
From fair + minded.
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