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frankness

[frangk-nis] / ˈfræŋk nɪs /


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Frankness isn’t a flaw, and it will help your daughter in the long run that she doesn’t have to untangle a knot of metaphors and tall tales in order to conceptualize death.

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2018

Frankness, however, is an unusual attribute in the Washington corridors of power.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2014

Opening gun of the late Mr. Bok's campaign was fired in March 1906, in an editorial headed "Frankness With Children."

From Time Magazine Archive

"May Frankness May Startle" On July 2, after my resignation, a breakthrough finally came in the crisis over Lebanon.

From Time Magazine Archive

M. de Creutz has a happy Physiognomy, being a mixture of hard Features with mild ones, that carry an Air of Probity and Frankness, which of all external Appearances is undoubtedly the most46 advantageous.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von




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