straight-from-the-shoulder

[streyt-fruhm-thuh-shohl-der] / ˈstreɪt frəm ðəˈʃoʊl dər /

ADJECTIVE

frank

Synonyms

WEAK

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 man-to-man 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

Example Sentences

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But the warm Willkie personality, the straight-from-the-shoulder talk obviously changed or troubled the minds of some anti-Willkie GOPartisans.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his straight-from-the-shoulder critique of U. S. shipping last year, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, then commission chairman, recommended Government-run training schools for seamen as one sure way of insuring a skilled personnel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week Major General Francis H. Griswold, Third Air Force commander, dropped in by plane at nine of the 16 major U.S. air bases to give his men a straight-from-the-shoulder talk.

From Time Magazine Archive

Criswell has done so ever since, skillfully blending humor, homely anecdote, snippets of poetry, and straight-from-the-shoulder Biblical literalism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like a mouse one minute, and then this straight-from-the-shoulder business….

From Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts by Williams, Emlyn