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Forthrightness   /fˈɔrθrˈaɪtnəs/   Listen
Forthrightness

noun
1.
The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech.  Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, frankness.





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"Forthrightness" Quotes from Famous Books



... was me you quarrelled about," remonstrated Bonbright with that sudden clear vision which ultra-spiritual natures often show, and that startling forthrightness of speech which amazes and daunts the mountaineer. "I'm the last man you ought to leave the mountain with, Huldah, if you want to ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
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... greater mind in the Church of England, no greater mind, I am disposed to think, in the English nation. His intellect has the range of an Acton, his forthrightness is the match of Dr. Johnson's, and his wit, less biting though little less courageous than Voltaire's, has the illuminating quality, if not the divine playfulness, of the ...
— Painted Windows - Studies in Religious Personality • Harold Begbie
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Words linked to "Forthrightness" :   honestness, frankness, forthright, ingenuousness, honesty


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