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plainspoken
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plain·spo·ken  (plnspkn)
adj.
Frank; straightforward; blunt.
plainspoken·ness n.
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Adj.1.plainspoken - using simple and direct language; "a plainspoken country doctor"
unrhetorical - not rhetorical
2.plainspoken - characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation"
candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder, outspoken, blunt
direct - straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"
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When I told him that many of us who cheer his plainspokenness on the Middle East decried him in the '70s, he laughed.
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Hugo's poem has a quiet majesty which steadily builds as the poem progresses; this is in part because he avails himself of simple declarative lines that have a solemn Biblical plainspokenness about them: Booz s'etait couche de fatigue accable; Il avait tout le jour travaille dans son aire; Puis avait fait son lit a sa place ordinaire; Booz dormait aupres des boisseaux pleins de ble.
Victor Hugo: the ghost in the pantheon by Ormsby, Eric / New Criterion
 
 
 
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