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straight-shooting
adjective as in frank
Weak matches
- 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
It was meant to present Baier as a straight-shooting journalist despite ample evidence to the contrary.
It was meant to present Baier as a straight-shooting journalist despite ample evidence to the contrary.
NBC is betting that some not insignificant portion of the huge audience for the debate will want somewhere to turn afterward, for context, relief, a good time and some straight-shooting.
He has acted instead with massive hubris and ambition, yet somehow the myth of the straight-shooting Midwestern umpire endures.
“It’s depressing,” Rich continued in his trademark straight-shooting way, “to watch a once-fervent expression of black self-respect and talent be spilled on the stage as if it were a trunkload of marked-down, damaged goods.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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