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plainspoken
adjective as in frank
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
- man-to-man
- 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
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Example Sentences
The plainspoken lifestyle mogul, who has not held back on her criticism of R.J.
From Los Angeles Times
The Democrats may be hoping his plainspoken, salt-of-the-earth appeal could cut into the Republican margins outside major metropolitan areas.
From BBC
Kristofferson's plainspoken vocals may have lacked range but they carried something more important - conviction.
From BBC
They said they liked the Minnesota governor because he was plainspoken.
From BBC
His plainspoken and small-town Midwestern sensibility could appeal to independent and conservative voters.
From BBC
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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