Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a fair face.
  • Double-faced; flatteringly deceptive; professing great love or kindness without reality.

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Examples

  • Yet, when the time came, she proved herself capable of rising to the height of the fair-faced royal races and of renouncing in right regal fashion.

    THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

  • Already, over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses, were the harbingers of the steel arriving, -- fair-faced, blue-eyed, indomitable men, incarnations of the unrest of their race.

    THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS 2010

  • Already, over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses, were the harbingers of the steel arriving, — fair-faced, blue-eyed, indomitable men, incarnations of the unrest of their race.

    “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010

  • For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners to join them as fake employees or business partners.

    Chinese Companies 'Renting' White People, CNN Reports 2010

  • For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners ...

    Chinese Companies 'Renting' White People, CNN Reports 2010

  • For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners to join them as fake employees or business partners.

    Chinese Companies 'Renting' White People, CNN Reports 2010

  • There should be more space in the collective consciousness devoted to fair-faced Demetrius.

    things I still see, even after repeated viewing Megan Kurashige 2010

  • Thereupon they made ready the séance of wassail; the fair-faced cup-companions came and the pure wine252 went round amongst them, till the cup came to the stranger, who rose to his feet and spake thus,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Withal she had covered up the lovely shapeliness of her legs with long boots of deer-leather, and her surcoat was wide-sleeved; she was well hidden, and whereas she was a tall and strong woman, she might well pass for a young man, slender and fair-faced.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Yet no one was able to persuade her mind and will, so wrath was she in her heart; but she stubbornly rejected all their words: for she vowed that she would never set foot on fragrant Olympus nor let fruit spring out of the ground, until she beheld with her eyes her own fair-faced daughter.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

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