Correct and Fair

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Correct adjective - Being in agreement with the truth or a fact or a standard.

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Fair and correct are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fair" instead an adjective "Correct".

Fair adjective - Being what is called for by accepted standards of right and wrong.

Usage example: most thought his dismissal was fair since he had been given many chances to clean up his act

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Correct and fair are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Correct" instead an adjective "Fair".

Nearby Words: fairness, fairly, faired, fairground

To be fair, it was originally correct until some troper edited this entry For the Lulz.

Source: Drinking Game / TV Tropes
Fair for Its Day, as it's not quite correct to class Wentworth as a 'self-made man' in the modern sense of having started from nothing.

Source: Literature / Persuasion
Still, L only reserves his justice for people he sees as evil, and to be fair his accusations seem to always be correct.

Source: Unscrupulous Hero

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