Synonyms

1. directness
2. forthrightness
3. candidness
4. candor
5. candour

Sentence Examples

1. I tell you, in full sincerity of soul, and your affection will excuse my frankness, but I declare to you I am not happy at Belle-Isle.
2. His frankness would have led him to disabuse every inquirer of such prejudice but his indolent humor forbade all farther agitation of a topic whose interest to himself had long ceased.
3. Laura Lyons was in her office, and Sherlock Holmes opened his interview with a frankness and directness which considerably amazed her.
4. Traitor, cruel, vindictive, and perfidious, wherein had this poor wretch failed in his fidelity, who with such frankness showed thee the secrets and the joys of his heart?
5. For an instant his eyes blazed at me, but my frankness disarmed his anger, and he broke at last into a rather rueful laugh.
6. It seemed that from such a basis of truth and frankness as the poor weak-headed pauper had laid, our intercourse might go forward to something better than the intercourse of sages.
7. Is such frankness too presumptuous for our new acquaintance?
8. He had recognized intelligence in the high forehead, courage in the dark eye and bent brow, and frankness in the thick lips that showed a set of pearly teeth.