• Synonyms: frankness, outspokenness
  Meaning: the trait of being blunt and outspoken
• Synonyms: candor, candour, candidness, frankness, directness, forthrightness
  Meaning: the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech

• Bursts of unpremeditated frankness
• An indescribable frankness and simplicity of character
• It isn't a bit becoming," said Rob, with the frankness of old comradeship.
• But the soldier is rejected with contempt, in two indecent lines, sung with absolute frankness and producing a furore in the audience.
• Emily Dickinson scrutinized everything with clear-eyed frankness. Every subject was proper ground for legitimate study, even the sombre facts of death and burial, and the unknown life beyond.
• Mr. Hume's magnanimity and firmness were such, that his most affectionate friends knew that they hazarded nothing in talking or writing to him as to a dying man, and that so far from being hurt by this frankness, he was rather pleased and flattered by it.
• She had been embarrassed by Kennicott's frankness, but she agreed with him that in the insane condition of civilization, which made the rearing of citizens more costly and perilous than any other crime, it was inadvisable to have children till he had made more money.
• That slight girl, with her little feet, little hands, little face attractively overweighted by great coils of hair; with a rather large mouth, whose mere parting seemed to breathe upon you the fragrance of frankness and generosity, had the fastidious soul of an experienced woman.
• Early in their engagement Wemyss had expounded his theory to Lucy that there should be the most perfect frankness between lovers, while as for husband and wife there oughtn't to be a corner anywhere about either of them, mind, body, or soul, which couldn't be revealed to the other one.

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