fair play
Example Sentences
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"Fair play to him," said Watson of Ringrose ruling himself out of action.
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West Ham say they continue to comply with Financial Fair Play rules "and expect to do so in the future".
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Teams were tasked with illustrating the theme of fair play and Unwin said the sculpture she designed was "ridiculously complicated".
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Confronted with the rules of fair play, the reader was enjoined to solve the case alongside the detective, which required seeing through the author’s sleights of hand.
Mr. Curran is an expert on Agatha Christie, who helped establish the rules of fair play by exploiting genre conventions that emerged during the 19th century, notably in Edgar Allan Poe’s stories featuring C. Auguste Dupin.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
