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straight-shooting
adjective as in frank
Weak matches
- 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
adjective as in on the level
adjective as in sporting
Strong matches
adjective as in straight-shooting
Weak matches
- 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
adjective as in decent
Strong match
Weak matches
- approved
- becoming
- befitting
- chaste
- clean
- comely
- comme il faut
- conforming
- continent
- decorous
- delicate
- ethical
- fit
- fitting
- immaculate
- mannerly
- moral
- nice
- on the up and up
- presentable
- pure
- reserved
- seemly
- spotless
- stainless
- standard
- straight
- straight arrow
- straight shooting
- suitable
- unblemished
- undefiled
- untarnished
- upright
- virtuous
- worthy
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Example Sentences
The Deen comic, written by Michael Troy and illustrated by Manuel Diaz, is informative and straight shooting.
From Netanyahu's right, Israeli politicians delivered some impolitic straight-shooting.
But her straight-shooting former cab driver father, Mitch, became a media fixture in his own right by decrying Amy's behavior.
But what happens when a straight-shooting populist crusader like Sheila Bair is no longer in charge?
It is a short hole, but the sort of one which needs straight shooting and an accurate pitch.
Time and again he had won the police prize for straight shooting from the hips.
Among other things, the ascetic life means straight shooting, steady hands, and an eye you can depend upon.
They've got to haul up if they do any straight shooting, and while they're standing still we're getting into the distance.
So, Lee began straight shooting—normal enlargement and reduction of straight copy.
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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to straight-shooting, such as: aboveboard, apparent, artless, bare-faced, blunt, and bold.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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