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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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17 words match “STRAIGHTFORWARD”

STRAIGHTFORWARD a. 2 definitions
In a straightforward manner. -- Straight`for"ward*ly, adv. -- Straight`for"ward*ness, n.
BOWL n.
. Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. Sir W. Scott.
CROOKED a.
Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right. They are a perverse and crooked generation. Deut. xxxii. 5.
DELIVER v.
rs. Sidney. An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward. Sir W. Scott.
DIRECT a.
Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken. Be even and direct with me. Shak.
DIRECTLY adv. 2 definitions
In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.
DIRECTNESS n.
The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.
DISHONESTY n.
Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
FORTHRIGHT a.
Direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man. [Archaic] Lowell. They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Piligrims wight with steps forthright. Emerson.
FORTHRIGHTNESS n.
Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic] Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.
HONESTY n.
The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile. That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 1 Tim. ii. 2.
INDIRECT a.
Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive. Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or other. Tillotson.
INDIRECTNESS n.
Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.
LEVEL a.
Straightforward; direct; direct; clear; open. A very plain and level account. M. Arnold.
OBLIQUE a.
Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister. The love we bear our friends... Hath in it certain oblique ends. Drayton. This mode of oblique research, when a more direct one is denied, we find to be the only one in our power. De Quincey. Then would be closed the restless, o…
POINT v.
ing; as, the error was pointed out. Pope. He points it, however, by no deviation from his straightforward manner of speech. Dickens.
SIMPLE a.
Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward. In simple manners all the secret lies. Young.