plainness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for plainness
Noun
  • Pet names can be love, but love without honesty is just sugar without substance.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • Vasquez also stressed the importance of public trust, transparency and honesty in rebuilding city departments’ credibility.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • The simplicity of pressure washing leads many to dismiss it as a side hustle rather than a scalable business.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
  • For minimalist interior designers, there’s beauty in simplicity and restraint.
    Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Learn more about how self-trust and interpersonal trust is earned through: care, competence, sincerity, and reliability.
    Colin Bedell, Them., 15 May 2025
  • Vince Vaughn brings an unforced sincerity to the role of inexperienced entrepreneur Joey Scaravella, and the four nonnas (grandmothers) who join him in his unconventional culinary enterprise are played by Lorraine Bracco, Susan Sarandon, Talia Shire and Brenda Vacarro — heavy hitters moving nimbly.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • When the inevitable happens, Sobule sings the title chorus with a winning subject-verb-object directness.
    Alfred Soto, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025
  • Newcastle could not match Villa’s energy, their directness or their intensity — traits usually associated with Howe’s side.
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The art of confessional songwriting is flourishing thanks to a wave of artists—Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo, SZA—whose lyrical candor creates an intense sense of closeness between listener and artist.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
  • The stories sit like figures in a painting by Alice Neel, if all the camaraderie in Neel’s work were drained out: staring straight ahead, some steely, some yearning, countenances slightly askew, drawn with thick streaks of candor, elbows jutting sideways.
    Audrey Wollen, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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“Plainness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plainness. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

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