plain-spoken
Example Sentences
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Her hard-nosed, plain-spoken manner quickly made her Warmuth’s point person for the Chinese American community.
From Los Angeles Times
However impassioned the soprano Kearstin Piper Brown may be, it’s hard to make the plight of her roughly sketched character — who is targeted for killing after she is wrongly assumed to have shot a child — as clear or compelling as the plain-spoken truth of the longer monologues.
From New York Times
She joined the war court bar after Gov. Pat Quinn of Illinois abolished the death penalty in 2011, and has used the plain-spoken language of a death-penalty defender in court arguments to make clear what is at stake.
From New York Times
The plain-spoken Mr. Hall was first and foremost a gifted writer, which led to his nickname, “The Storyteller.”
From Washington Post
That includes Matteo Salvini, the leader of the nationalist League party and once the most powerful politician in Italy, who has struggled for relevance under the plain-spoken Mr. Draghi.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.