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

Saladin gets the credit of being a pretty fairish giant, doesn't he, Miss Blanchard? or so I think my school-books used to say.

From Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time by Machar, Agnes Maule

She's thought a fairish sailor, and has doffed her Crown, but see, She's clutching at the gunwale, too, as nervous as can be.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 by Various

Then he spoke aloud: 'Well, sir, I'm a fairish specimen of a boy, I think.'

From The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)