"Aboveboard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was open and aboveboard," I continued, beginning to fear we had hastily misjudged Miss ...
— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen
... open and aboveboard that it hadn't been thought worth while to hide its wording under the ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance
... untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu^, unaffected, naive; sincere, frank; open, open as day; candid, ingenuous, guileless; unsuspicious, honest &c 939; innocent &c 946; Arcadian^; undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard; simple-minded, single-minded; frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted. free-spoken, plain-spoken, outspoken; blunt, downright, direct, matter of fact, unpoetical^; unflattering. Adv. in plain words, in plain English; without mincing the matter; not to ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... leaped in me to beat in neck and temple, at sight of my own comrades! And how I envied them, free to ride erect and proud in the light of day, harnessed for battle, flying no false colors for concealment—all fair and clean and aboveboard! ...
— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers
... from the country is that it would not only be ignominious, but perilous to their interests in the far East, which are now in jeopardy from the 'encroachments of Russia, the diplomacy, not always honest and aboveboard, of America, and the ambitious ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
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