fairish
Example Sentences
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Suddenly, to the amazement of Marine pilots and mechanics, a Japanese twin-engined bomber, its wheels still retracted, glided in and scraped down the runway to a fairish belly landing.
From Time Magazine Archive
A fairish number of "parents" are disposed of before Lieberman finally catches up with and confronts the wicked Mengele in a Pennsylvania farmhouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a fairish man of forty, pale, with a large protuberant, observant grey eye—I speak particularly of the left—and a face of quiet animation warily alert for the wit's opportunity.
From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
"For all I know to the contrary, it's a fairish sort of street, not so fust-class as some others I could name, but there's a few decent people living in it."
From The Childerbridge Mystery by Boothby, Guy Newell
With him it is never warm, but warmish; the bluest sky is bluish; a June day, fairish; a twenty-mile walk, longish.
From Horace Chase by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
