fair words
Example Sentences
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My client replied with words about how this wasn’t fair, words that argued that I told him—encouraged him!—to explore all of his complicated feelings in his essays.
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2018
In bistro and Metro French men, wooed by fair words and wheat from the U.S.S.R., felt that the West was at last concerned for the future of France.
From Time Magazine Archive
That night the Company was again summoned to the chamber of Celeborn, and there the Lord and Lady greeted them with fair words.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
“It can’t be done by fighting or fair words, no. So it will have to be done by means of a trick.”
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Good sir," said he, "some folk make pictures on a canvas with bright colored oils and brilliant paints, and other folk make pictures with fair words, as they tell wonder tales.
From The Green Forest Fairy Book by Brady, Loretta Ellen
