Thesaurus / plainspoken
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This undoubtedly was a bitter attack, and the plainspoken words used must have wounded Lowe intensely.
THE TRAGEDY OF ST. HELENAWALTER RUNCIMANAbdallah made a sign to the ferret-faced youth, and the latter fell back from the plainspoken major.
THE YOUNG CONTINENTALS AT BUNKER HILLJOHN T. MCINTYREHe had been a lover of the good, old, plainspoken stamp, about whom there had been no mistake.
THE CLAVERINGSANTHONY TROLLOPEShe could not blurt out to Alec's mother the contents of that exceedingly plainspoken epistle now reposing in her pocket.
A SON OF THE IMMORTALSLOUIS TRACYWORDS RELATED TO PLAINSPOKEN
- aboveboard
- apparent
- artless
- bare-faced
- blunt
- bold
- brazen
- call a spade a spade
- candid
- direct
- downright
- easy
- familiar
- flat-out
- forthright
- free
- from the hip
- guileless
- heart-to-heart
- honest
- ingenuous
- lay it on the line
- like it is
- man-to-man
- matter-of-fact
- naive
- natural
- open
- outright
- outspoken
- plain
- plain-spoken
- plainspoken
- real
- saying what one thinks
- scrupulous
- sincere
- straight
- straight-out
- straightforward
- transparent
- truthful
- unconcealed
- undisguised
- uninhibited
- unreserved
- unrestricted
- up front
- upright
- aboveboard
- apparent
- artless
- bare-faced
- blunt
- bold
- brazen
- call a spade a spade
- candid
- direct
- downright
- easy
- familiar
- flat-out
- forthright
- free
- from the hip
- guileless
- heart-to-heart
- honest
- ingenuous
- lay it on the line
- like it is
- man-to-man
- matter-of-fact
- naive
- natural
- open
- outright
- outspoken
- plain
- plain-spoken
- plainspoken
- real
- saying what one thinks
- scrupulous
- sincere
- straight
- straightforward
- transparent
- truthful
- unconcealed
- undisguised
- uninhibited
- unreserved
- unrestricted
- up front
- upright
- aboveboard
- apparent
- artless
- bare-faced
- blunt
- bold
- brazen
- call a spade a spade
- candid
- direct
- downright
- easy
- familiar
- flat-out
- forthright
- free
- from the hip
- guileless
- heart-to-heart
- honest
- ingenuous
- lay it on the line
- like it is
- man-to-man
- matter-of-fact
- naive
- natural
- open
- outright
- outspoken
- plain
- plain-spoken
- plainspoken
- real
- saying what one thinks
- scrupulous
- sincere
- straight
- straight-out
- straightforward
- transparent
- truthful
- unconcealed
- undisguised
- uninhibited
- unreserved
- unrestricted
- up front
- upright
- believable
- candid
- correct
- exact
- factual
- faithful
- forthright
- frank
- guileless
- ingenuous
- just
- kosher
- legit
- like it is
- literal
- on the level
- on the up and up
- open
- outspoken
- plainspoken
- precise
- real
- realistic
- reliable
- righteous
- scrupulous
- sincere
- square
- straight
- straightforward
- true
- true-blue
- trustworthy
- truth-telling
- unfeigned
- unreserved
- veracious
- veritable
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