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forthrightness

/adjective, noun fawrth-rahyt, fohrth-; adverb fawrth-rahyt, fohrth-, fawrth-rahyt, fohrth-/US // adjective, noun ˈfɔrθˌraɪt, ˈfoʊrθ-; adverb ˌfɔrθˈraɪt, ˌfoʊrθ-, ˈfɔrθˌraɪt, ˈfoʊrθ- //

直言不讳,直率性,直率,坦率

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1

    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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. a straight course or path.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as ininnocence

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.

  • Then the guards 434 entered and told the Sultan, who bade bring them before him forthright into the Divan.

  • When it did, he pulled up short in his stride, as if he had come physically against some forthright obstruction.

  • But when his hand touched that upon which his head had been resting he cried out suddenly and struggled forthright to his feet.

  • Any article I may put to its forthright use in actuality becomes an idyllic toy when I find it in the Back of a magazine.