forthright
坦率的,率直的,坦率,明朗的
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Definitions
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- : going straight to the point; frank; direct; outspoken: It's sometimes difficult to be forthright and not give offense.
- : proceeding in a straight course; direct; straightforward: a forthright glance.
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Also forthrightly.
- : straight or directly forward; in a direct or straightforward manner: He told us forthright just what his objections were.
- : straightaway; at once; immediately: He saw forthright that such an action was folly.
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- : Archaic. a straight course or path.
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Examples
In a recent interview with the New York Times, Biles was forthright about the toll her sport had taken on her.
The goal is to make some quick money dancing at strip clubs, which seems forthright enough.
Instead, it combines a forthright declaration of the facts about what the candidate actually supports on policing with a refusal to retreat on discussing systemic racism.
They are being much less forthright, though, when it comes to asking users for their consent and presenting transparent information.
You would like to think McDermott, who has shown remorse and been more forthright than most of his peers would be, truly did make what he called “an awful mistake.”
Well, McConnell made Romney look like an ironman of forthright constancy.
If anything, that seemed to encourage him to be even more forthright on Twitter.
Nobody else was as forthright with me about this touchy topic.
But, he said with a grimace, “I do judge by my meetings with people how forthright they are.”
It is customary for political campaigns to keep their most forthright views in-house.
Yet he often wrote with a forthright power, naked and unadorned, which could dispense with the aid of literary artifices.