plain-dealing
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Decency, fairness and plain-dealing - doing "the right thing" if you like - appear often to be in short supply.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2016
On the other hand, “It must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a muzzle,” Don John, the cruel and moody brother in “Much Ado About Nothing,” says.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 9, 2015
Figuring that $10 a ticket was more than the party was worth, New Mexico's plain-dealing Governor John E. Miles vetoed plans for an inaugural ball to celebrate his second term.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We are plain-dealing and plain-speaking people," he said, "and we should like to know where we stand with Italy."
From Time Magazine Archive
But with oneself one may always, without impropriety, deal quite freely; and, indeed, this sort of plain-dealing with oneself has in it, as all the moralists tell us, something very wholesome.
From Culture and Anarchy by Arnold, Matthew
