Definitionn. the quality of being direct and straightforward
Last update: July 9, 2015
0
Temple Barholm," she answered with Manchester downrightness." [Please select]
0
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]
0
But in secret she admired her daughter's candour, her downrightness and straightforwardness, her disdain of conventions and hypocrisies. [Please select]
0
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]
0
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]
Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!