fair-haired
adjective
: specially favored : white-headed
—used especially in the phrase fair-haired boy
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Examples of fair-haired in a Sentence
she had been the teacher's fair-haired pupil—the one who could do no wrong
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Emma has been some fabulous version of blonde for quite some time now, interrupting her fair-haired streak with the occasional brunette detour.
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Marci Robin, Allure, 3 Feb. 2025
The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
Each shows a fair-haired woman, finely dressed in a yellow satin jacket and seated at a table, with a pen in her right hand and a sheet of paper at the ready.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
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Marci Robin, Allure, 3 Feb. 2025
The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
Each shows a fair-haired woman, finely dressed in a yellow satin jacket and seated at a table, with a pen in her right hand and a sheet of paper at the ready.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
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“Fair-haired.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fair-haired. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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