square-shooting

ADJECTIVE

amicable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

amiable civil cordial courteous harmonious neighborly peaceful polite

WEAK

accordant agreeing clubby concordant cozy empathic good-humored kind kindly like-minded mellow pacific peaceable regular right nice sociable sympathetic understanding

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disagreeable impolite rude uncivil unfriendly unmannerly unrefined unsociable

WEAK

hostile

ADJECTIVE

sporting

Synonyms

STRONG

antic fair game rollicking square

WEAK

coltish considerate devil-may-care frisky frolicsome gamesome gay generous gentlemanly impish jaunty joyous kittenish larkish lively merry mischievous reasonable roguish sportive sportsmanlike sportsmanly sprightly square dealing straight shooting waggish wild

Antonyms

WEAK

unsporting

ADJECTIVE

straightforward

Synonyms

STRONGEST

candid forthright genuine sincere truthful unequivocal

WEAK

aboveboard barefaced direct frank guileless honorable just laid on the line level like it is mellow open outspoken plain plain-dealing pretenseless straight straight-arrow talking turkey unconcealed undisguised undissembled undissembling unvarnished up front upright upstanding veracious

Antonyms

STRONGEST

devious dishonest insincere lying tricky untruthful

WEAK

complicated deceitful difficult hard indirect involved

Example Sentences

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All Hands, official Bureau of Naval Personnel magazine, last week published a letter to all Reservists from square-shooting, popular Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout.

From Time Magazine Archive

Month ago, Oklahoma's squarejawed, square-shooting Wesley E. Disney set the fuse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out in the state of Washington, rich, square-shooting Stanley Weston is engaged to Marigold Wade, a rancher's daughter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once in a while you bump into somebody that's so straight and square-shooting that you'd like to have him for a partner.

From Ronicky Doone by Brand, Max

square-shooting

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