frank
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To be frank, it sounds like you don’t like this man, and that is OK.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov called the talks "extremely frank", saying the Americans "put forward a number of ideas on possible routes to a settlement", but did not elaborate.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
She believed in shaping the future by being fearlessly frank about the present and the past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
There was no hiding place, and the Celtic manager was frank when put in the spotlight at full-time.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Kozinn and Sinclair paint her as a complex person, occasionally haughty or petty, but franker and more open with the press.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
It was, said Bobby Wagner, an ugly win by the Seahawks — a frank assessment for which wide receiver Tyler Lockett had a slightly franker amendment.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2019
But a South Korean presidential adviser offered a franker assessment.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019
Few were franker about this fact than Micah Uetricht, associate editor for the leftist magazine Jacobin—one of the few publications identified as a Devumi customer.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2018
I ought perhaps," he began, "to have been franker in this matter.
From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus
Passages like these are some of the frankest and most resonant I have read about what death does to the bereaved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2022
In framing this as the frankest discussion of their marriage to date, they manage to get away with saying very little.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2020
Ellison’s closeness with Wright brings out some of his frankest early letters.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
“This may be the frankest and most important presidential correspondence of this century,” he told the New York Times.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2018
He is the frankest gentleman of heaven, and so infinitely obliging!
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
Vocabulary lists containing frank
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 1
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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