straight-shooting
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“You knew where you stood with him at all times. He was devoted to making the stories that we produced as much of a straight-shooting operation as he himself was.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
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
A 1971 ad featured newsman Bryan Johnson, who sounded, looked and acted like a straight-shooting reporter.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
They were all of the same mold—clean-cut, straight-shooting lads, their faces bronzed from the prairie sun, and their eyes as clear as the blue sky above them.
From The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings
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