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dead level
adverb as in frankly
adjective as in sincere
Weak matches
- 24-carat
- aboveboard
- actual
- artless
- bona fide
- dead-level
- dear
- devout
- faithful
- frank
- guileless
- honest-to-God
- honest-to-goodness
- like it is
- meant
- natural
- no-fooling
- no-nonsense
- on the level
- on the line
- on the up and up
- open
- plain
- pretensionless
- regular
- righteous
- saintly
- square
- sure-enough
- true-blue
- unaffected
- undesigning
- undissembled
- unfeigned
- unpretentious
- up-front
- wholehearted
Example Sentences
“During the McCain campaign, I tried my dead-level best to make sure nobody knew anything,” he recounts.
These men seek to avoid that dead level of uniformity to which the national life of France appears to them in danger of sinking.
Realizing that this was a critical moment, he stood motionless, with his weapon still at a dead level.
The juragan's automatic dropped to a dead level with the eyes of the Bugi who had saved Paddy.
All things and all men must be reduced to a dead level of imbecility.
Two incidents alone relieved the dead level of idiocy and incomprehensible gabble.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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