straight-shooting

ADJECTIVE

frank

Synonyms

WEAK

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

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straight-shooting

He has acted instead with massive hubris and ambition, yet somehow the myth of the straight-shooting Midwestern umpire endures.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024

His assessment of the performance against Cyprus was an exercise in straight-shooting.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2023

People were looking for a calm, straight-shooting, honest leader and thought they’d found him in Carter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

A 1971 ad featured newsman Bryan Johnson, who sounded, looked and acted like a straight-shooting reporter.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

There came an era when a member of that stern straight-shooting breed who blazed the trails for the coming of the statutes wielded the powers of high justice, the middle, and the low.

From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)

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