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plain-spoken

[pleyn-spoh-kuhn] / ˈpleɪnˈspoʊ kən /










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He was plain spoken by nature, which sometimes played well for him in the media and sometimes badly.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

He’s plain spoken and becomes somewhat ill at ease when discussing his accomplishments.

From Washington Times • Apr. 29, 2017

“He’s right on the issues I care about and has a wonderful way of being plain spoken and not simplistic.”

From MSNBC • Dec. 19, 2015

“She is as candid and plain spoken as she is deeply scholarly.”

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2015

It is curious, but true, that this most sagacious statesman was, in a scholarly age, no scholar, and that this fastidious connoisseur of Art was, in a coarse age, exceptionally plain spoken and free-living.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)




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