upfrontness

Definitions

The quality of being upfront.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Betty's antique, wealthy, don't-confront-the-issue style clashed sharply with Jane's tough, working-class up-frontness.”

“10,000 BC owes a debt to Bear⟳ Gryll's The Island, although that was all men and this is half women. This show⟳ also begins with an admirable upfrontness about the little compromises that mean⟳ the experience⟳ is not quite as prehistoric as all that.”

“There is nothing frothy nor fake about her, as far as I can tell⟳, and her earnest up-frontness is bracing. But then, she and her band mates, she says, were never media-trained: "[If] we felt like⟳ saying something we said it."”

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