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View definitions for fair-and-square

fair-and-square

adjective as in honest and aboveboard

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"You can see Lewis was a beaten man and I won the fight fair and square. The ref took my dreams away tonight."

From BBC

That Sugar knows this, makes him determined to beat Hezekiah “fair and square.”

It is a brazen power grab disguised as a legal maneuver, akin to a child overcome by a tantrum who insists on rewriting the rules of a game he lost fair and square.

From Slate

The ruling party, Georgian Dream, says it won the vote fair and square and insists it’s the largely ceremonial president, Salome Zourabichvili, who has no legitimacy.

From BBC

He won fair and square but to call it an overwhelming mandate to dismantle the government is ridiculous.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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