forthright in English
his most forthright attack yet on the reforms
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Use "forthright" in a sentence
1. He gave a forthright answer.
2. She answered in her usual forthright manner .
3. His forthright behavior offends some people.
4. She was by nature forthright and impatient.
5. Peter was forthright, dynamic, and sometimes impulsive.
6. His best approach was to be forthright and fast.
7. She's always been very forthright about her preferences.
8. Nevertheless, she is delightfully forthright, alert and amusing.
9. Kelis retains this sassy forthright attitude throughout the album.
10. He spoke in a forthright manner but without anger.
11. His forthright manner can be mistaken for rudeness.
12. Synonyms: direct, forthcoming, forthright… Antonyms: dissembling, unCandid, unforthcoming… Find the …
13. The response of the US authorities has been forthright.
14. Bruck's forthright comments angered several people in the audience.
15. He has a reputation for being a forthright critic.
16. I admire her forthright way of dealing with people.
17. 10 Jesus spoke to his disciples in a simple, forthright manner.
18. In Jayapura the independence movement organised its most forthright challenge yet.
19. Leadership and confidence radiate from her in a forthright and direct manner.
20. Antonyms for Complicitous include clear, forthright, honest, open, naïve, straightforward and unassuming
21. They waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright.
22. When it comes to racing etiquette and forthright language, Mario has few equals.
23. Antonyms for Conspiratorial include open, honest, overt, public, aboveboard, candid, forthright, frank, straight and straightforward
24. Hodge's merits were that he was honest, courageous, forthright, without arrogance or pretension.
25. His is the forthright approach of the man who knows how to get things done.
26. With forthright language Jehovah explained that Baruch’s own selfish pursuits were the source of his frustration.
27. Alternating attempts at forthright assertion of authority and tentative gestures of conciliation exacerbated the situation.
28. He has the assertive, husky voice and the confident, forthright manner of an athlete.
29. Antonyms for Cloaked include open, public, overt, above-board, candid, forthright, frank, straightforward, undisguised and unreserved
30. Antonyms for Complicit include clear, forthright, honest, open, naïve, straightforward, unassuming, modest, unpretentious and direct
31. Always a forthright woman, she incurred the wrath of the anti-abolitionists and her life was threatened.
32. To me, Manhattan was like a well-worn shoe, ugly but honest, forthright about its flaws and beauties.
33. (Romans 13:1) In a forthright judgment, Luther said that the revolt should be put down with force.
34. Don Peters had been pleasantly surprised to find the Prime Minister's forthright manner lived up to her advance publicity.
35. Abscond To steal a sexual favor from a second party in a very seductive and forthright manner
36. Indeed, she would argue that her forthright and uncompromising approach is a vital element of her success.
37. No greater compliment can be paid to the forthright intelligence of any businessman than to say that he understands production.
38. His purpose was more forthright than mine, looking for a new war to wipe out the stain of defeat.
39. He Amiably volunteered to make an appointment for me with the minister.: His forthright, Amiably assertive manner perhaps appealed to some readers
40. Goodbye Jadine Hoye is an Affable , helpful, forthright McBain who can also "talk the talk" of Gotham's cops and robbers.
41. I urge the administration to find a more appropriate and forthright solution to the budgetary and debt extension issues at hand.
42. As an example, consider this forthright statement: “Let marriage be honorable among all, and the marriage bed be without defilement, for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.”
43. Judges is most beneficial in its forthright advocacy of Jehovah’s worship and its powerful warnings concerning the folly of demon religion, interfaith, and immoral associations.
44. Even more determined than Denver is Beloved, the whirlwind force that Belabors a household for 18 years, exiles two strong brothers, and edges her forthright mother to the brink of madness
45. You never went back to have a talk with that girl who went catatonic after you tossed her aside, and you never bid farewell to those sincere and forthright herdsmen.
46. Adj Ambagious roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`Ambagious' is archaic) "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression","A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot"
47. Camera prompts a forthright, thorough correction after Deutsche Welle erroneously reported that UN Resolution 194 "guaranteed" the Palestinian "right of return." The General Assembly resolution is a suggestion, not a guarantee, conditions return on refugees willing to live at peace with their neighbors, and places return on equal footing with
48. "It Behooveth us before all things forthright to bury these bodies in the ground, that so the secret be not known to anyone." Tehran Winter Quoth the captain: "Now it Behooveth us to make inquiry in this matter, else shall we suffer much of loss, and this our treasure, which we and our forefathers have amassed during the course of many years