Sentence example with the word 'downrightness'

downrightness

Definition n. the quality of being direct and straightforward

Last update: July 9, 2015


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Temple Barholm," she answered with Manchester downrightness."   [Please select]

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Blunt, honest downrightness, that was the key of it, and it took away the breath of all those women used to the devious necessities of purdah politics.   [Please select]

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But in secret she admired her daughter's candour, her downrightness and straightforwardness, her disdain of conventions and hypocrisies.   [Please select]

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Both Lord and Lady Grosville had been good hosts in their day; and the downrightness of the wife had been as much to the taste of many as the agreeable gossip of the husband.   [Please select]

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We have squires as many by thousands, as accomplished by tens of thousands; but the inimitable union of simplicity and refinement, downrightness and dignity, disappeared with the last faint reflection of Sir Roger de Coverley.   [Please select]

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