frank

I think it’s a lot more humane, to be quite frank.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

The outspoken designer is renowned for his frank takes on the industry - previously calling social media games such as Farmville "evil" and World of Warcraft's quest design "unethical".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The report provides the most frank and in-depth review of the Eaton and Palisades fires, and points out multiple shortcomings in governmental planning and response.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

To be frank, it sounds like you don’t like this man, and that is OK.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

"He's the kind caint nobody please. Be frank though, there's lots feel like that now."

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Kozinn and Sinclair paint her as a complex person, occasionally haughty or petty, but franker and more open with the press.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022

It was, said Bobby Wagner, an ugly win by the Seahawks — a frank assessment for which wide receiver Tyler Lockett had a slightly franker amendment.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2019

Few were franker about this fact than Micah Uetricht, associate editor for the leftist magazine Jacobin—one of the few publications identified as a Devumi customer.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2018

“Reset” sounds so careful and inoffensive and technocratic; after seeing a glimpse of the franker, free-wheeling Ellen Pao, one can’t help hoping for something more.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2017

This was a Mary Smith, no less beautiful, but gay and fresh as the morning, in dainty white with a broad blue sash, with something new, something of a franker bearing in her air.

From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman

In 2020 your sister published “Open Book,” which is one of the frankest celebrity memoirs I’ve read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025

In framing this as the frankest discussion of their marriage to date, they manage to get away with saying very little.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2020

Ellison’s closeness with Wright brings out some of his frankest early letters.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019

“This may be the frankest and most important presidential correspondence of this century,” he told the New York Times.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2018

The young man rose, after a minute, and offered me his hand in the frankest manner; and then calling for a fresh bottle, they drank wine with me, and I went back to my breakfast.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis