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Downrightness

noun
1.
The quality of being direct and straightforward.  Synonym: straightforwardness.






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"Downrightness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Street Theatre, Philadelphia. Presented to his friends, his wife at once made a deep and lasting impression. Her native delicacy of mind and refinement of manners enchanted those who hoped for some such influence to be exerted in softening the rough vigor and democratic downrightness of the man. Domestic discord came too soon, however, and in an evil hour for himself, in an evil hour for his art and for the struggling drama in America, Edwin Forrest threw open the doors of his home to the scrutiny of the world, and ...
— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) • Various



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