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plain-spoken

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Trying to be ordinary, plain-spoken, and spontaneous made it worse.

The president's people are plain-spoken, loyal, and courageous.

Warm and easy company, Tilghman is an unusually plain-spoken and down-to-earth university president.

She's a plain-spoken pol from Toledo who wants to put Wall Street bankers behind bars.

Plain-spoken he certainly was, and sometimes harsh in dealing with those whom he thought to be doing wrong.

They knew very well from certain past unpleasant experiences what it meant to cross this quiet, plain-spoken man.

The billet under its wing contained certain cabalistic characters, and the plain-spoken intelligence, "Louis Philippe est mort!"

And it was as well that she did not hear what the extra plain spoken Primrose did not spare the boasting Thekla.

The rich find but little consideration at the hands of the plain-spoken dreamer.

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On this page you'll find 422 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to plain-spoken, such as: blunt, blustering, brief, direct, frank, and open.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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