Meaning

Alternative form of fair play..

Example Sentences

It is true he had a hard battle for it; but if he had ungenerous detractors who hated everything not English, he had more numerous friends and supporters; and perhaps in no country in the world would a foreigner like him have obtained such fairplay in the race.

We ask for the creation of a Government Department which will control the hampering influences of landlords, who are the absolute monopolists of our soil and all our mineral wealth, and for the purpose of giving our mines such fairplay as will tend to the enormous development of our mineral interests.

Your whole idea, Mr. Sarnoff, is to leave to the sense of fairplay of broadcasters this problem of giving a proper and adequate hearing to the so-called minor parties?

A sense of fairplay would dictate that 2 years is more than a reasonable period of time for this study to be completed and for Congress then to take such action as it deems right and proper.

His deep humanity and sense of fairplay and justice endeared him to all communities.

And I hope our Presidency has been one of decency, a sense of honor, a sense of fairplay, and I'm just going to continue to emphasize these themes.

This will create a sense of disappointment in the subordinates concerned and they will feel that there was no fairplay.

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Use fairplay when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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