straight-shooting
Example Sentences
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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
And he disappointed some politicians, consultants and lobbyists who remember him as a trustworthy, straight-shooting Republican legislative leader in Sacramento.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2023
The three had pinned their hopes for re-electing the president on a fourth guest, a straight-shooting Wall Street Journal White House reporter named Michael Bender.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2020
The old captain took much interest in the skill of his protégé Jim, whom he considered worthy to be enrolled in the straight-shooting American navy.
From The Frontier Boys in the Sierras Or, The Lost Mine by Roosevelt, Wyn
