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straightforward
adjective as in honest
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Weak matches
aboveboard, barefaced, direct, frank, guileless, honorable, just, laid on the line, level, like it is, mellow, open, outspoken, plain, plain-dealing, pretenseless, square-shooting, straight, straight-arrow, talking turkey, unconcealed, undisguised, undissembled, undissembling, unvarnished, up front, upright, upstanding, veracious
adjective as in simple, easy
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Weak matches
apparent, direct, distinct, elementary, evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, routine, straight, through, undemanding, uninterrupted
Example Sentences
The argument for defunding, however, is fairly straightforward.
Keep your filenames descriptive and straightforward and you’ll be ahead of the game.
Recruiting a new developer with the brief “can be based anywhere” seemed like a straightforward role to fill for marketing industry specialist Sphere Digital Recruitment.
Because I couldn’t remember anything about the time before the accident, it seemed like the most straightforward answer.
Talk show host Wendy Williams is known for her straightforward and unfiltered nature, especially when it comes to interviewing celebrity guests.
“He has always been very straightforward with me,” Obama said of his relationship with the GOP leader.
Most have been straightforward cases where the child came in with the characteristic rash.
The purpose of the ISIS threats are less straightforward than they may seem.
Pretty damn straightforward: Elect, and reelect, a Democratic president.
Raeburn is a science reporter, and much of what he does in this book is straightforward reporting.
Here was a return for his frankness—his straightforward conduct—his unequalled liberality.
“Mr. Pickwick, I thank you most heartily for all your kindness to my son,” said old Mr. Winkle, in a bluff straightforward way.
In private life, all who knew him agreed as to his sympathetic, jovial, and straightforward character.
This is the last will of Mr. Faversham—a plain, straightforward will in many ways, although slightly involved in others.
The steam-tug had not to contend with the ordinary straightforward rush of a North Sea storm.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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