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man-to-man
adjective as in face-to-face
Strongest match
Strong match
adjective as in plainspoken
Weak matches
- aboveboard
- apparent
- artless
- bare-faced
- bold
- brazen
- call a spade a spade
- direct
- downright
- easy
- familiar
- flat-out
- free
- from the hip
- heart-to-heart
- ingenuous
- lay it on the line
- like it is
- natural
- open
- outright
- plain
- plain-spoken
- real
- saying what one thinks
- scrupulous
- sincere
- straight
- straight-out
- transparent
- truthful
- unconcealed
- undisguised
- uninhibited
- unreserved
- unrestricted
- up front
- upright
adjective as in straight-from-the-shoulder
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
- 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 straight-out
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
- matter-of-fact
- naive
- natural
- open
- outright
- outspoken
- plain
- plain-spoken
- plainspoken
- real
- saying what one thinks
- scrupulous
- sincere
- straight
- straightforward
- transparent
- truthful
- unconcealed
- undisguised
- uninhibited
- unreserved
- unrestricted
- up front
- upright
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
- 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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Example Sentences
In a man-to-man duel he had an excellent chance of survival.
It was all very simple, this man-to-man system of traffic, but no one took it lightly or in the spirit of jest.
He had whipped Brayley in a fair, square, hand-to-hand, man-to-man fight.
Often he assured me that we were men, face to face; that I was not his Boswell, not his disciple, but a man-to-man friend.
Captain Immelman: I challenge you to a man-to-man fight to take place this afternoon at two o'clock.
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On this page you'll find 210 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to man-to-man, such as: eye to eye, facing, one-on-one, person-to-person, vis-à-vis, and woman-to-woman.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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