plain-spoken
Example Sentences
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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)