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Synonyms for forthright

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Synonyms for forthright

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Synonyms for forthright

characterized by directness in manner or speech

directly and without evasion

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Being forthright is good for both your conscience and career.
Buyer: Yintech Investment Holdings/ Forthright Financial Holdings
In a statement to the Record last night, Ewing said: "I am aware that - on occasion - I can be forthright in the way I represent my views.
Forthright Construction initially placed a P98-million bid but had to reduce this to P75 million to land the contract after a competing firm owned by Bote's family almost outbid him, the source said.
Wielding forthright prose and a thriller's pace, Dipika Mukherjee weaves the personal life of an American professor into the political life of a nation on the verge of crisis.
Nina is interviewed by forthright single mother George, then meets brothers Max and Joe for the first time, finding the duo to be smart and funny beyond their years.
I have keenly followed his forthright views on cricket in the past and I trust he will be able to bring about positive change in our cricket".
Summary: The run-up to the Geneva II peace conference on Syria has been thrown into disarray because the organizers were anything but transparent and forthright about a crucial event that will affect the future of a country of nearly 25 million people.
As dusk descends, you can hear the tu-whit tu-whoo of tawny owls the trees and, by contrast, each morning the robin's song establishing his territory couldn't be more forthright.
But her forthright views have endeared her to the public at large and, by gamely doing so well on Strictly Come Dancing, she has earned herself this prime-time, 60-minute chance to put cocky Piers Morgan in his place, too.
Staying in France the CHATEAU LE PAYRAL BERGERAC SEC 2008 (pounds 6.25, www.bottlebank.co.uk) has a fresh and forthright nose of bright grapefruit, with a smidge of vegetation in the background.
"I'm a forthright Yorkshireman who calls a spade a spade."
In a condolence message, Hamza Shahbaz Sharif said that Irshad Ahmed Haqqani was a forthright journalist and intellectual who had a deep insight into national and political affairs.