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straight-from-the-shoulder
adjective as in frank
Weak matches
- aboveboard
- apparent
- artless
- bare-faced
- blunt
- bold
- brazen
- call a spade a spade
- candid
- direct
- downright
- easy
- familiar
- flat-out
- forthright
- free
- from the hip
- guileless
- heart-to-heart
- honest
- ingenuous
- lay it on the line
- like it is
- man-to-man
- matter-of-fact
- naive
- natural
- open
- outright
- outspoken
- plain
- plain-spoken
- plainspoken
- real
- saying what one thinks
- scrupulous
- sincere
- straight
- straight-out
- straightforward
- transparent
- truthful
- unconcealed
- undisguised
- uninhibited
- unreserved
- unrestricted
- up front
- upright
adjective as in straight-from-the-shoulder
Weak matches
- aboveboard
- apparent
- artless
- bare-faced
- blunt
- bold
- brazen
- call a spade a spade
- candid
- direct
- downright
- easy
- familiar
- flat-out
- forthright
- free
- from the hip
- guileless
- heart-to-heart
- honest
- ingenuous
- lay it on the line
- like it is
- man-to-man
- matter-of-fact
- naive
- natural
- open
- outright
- outspoken
- plain
- plain-spoken
- plainspoken
- real
- saying what one thinks
- scrupulous
- sincere
- straight
- straight-out
- straightforward
- transparent
- truthful
- unconcealed
- undisguised
- uninhibited
- unreserved
- unrestricted
- up front
- upright
adjective as in direct
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Example Sentences
It was no good trying some tricky approach; his best bet was the straight-from-the-shoulder bit.
"Very well, sir," said Colin, a little taken aback by this straight-from-the-shoulder statement.
They were straight-from-the-shoulder remarks, or, as he called them, they were “brass tacks.”
It was all straight-from-the-shoulder kind of talk, garbed in homely phrase.
The Cubans and the officers of the company alike came in for a good deal of straight-from-the-shoulder Yankee criticism.
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On this page you'll find 49 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to straight-from-the-shoulder, such as: aboveboard, apparent, artless, bare-faced, blunt, and bold.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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