frank
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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
To be frank, it sounds like you don’t like this man, and that is OK.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
“To be quite frank, I just don’t see everything getting to 100% by the end of the season,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
And “Frankly, he’s boring” doesn’t mean the guy is boring in a frank way.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
Maybe it would open the door for a franker conversation about his functionality that he is as yet too ashamed to broach?
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2021
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
But a South Korean presidential adviser offered a franker assessment.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019
They were franker, more kindly, better intentioned than the Eastern studio type, and besides they did not consider themselves superior.
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
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
We invariably encountered the frankest and most affable hospitality among them, and our arrival in a camp was always hailed by the joyful shouts of the whole tribe hurrying to meet us.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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