fairish

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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

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

He is a fat young man with fairish curly hair and an important bearing.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Now that we were once more on the road, we trotted along at a fairish pace through the silent night.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

Now it would have taken a fairish dose to disgust Wiltshire.—Again, the idea of publishing the Beach substantively is dropped—at once, both on account of expostulation, and because it measured shorter than I had expected.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew