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Recent Examples of plainspoken His movie shares and enhances the novel’s commitment to excavation—but in place of the plainspoken language of Whitehead’s novel and the ground-penetrating pickaxes of real life, Ross favors images. K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024 Just plainspoken storytelling about his regrets, mental struggles and redemption couched in acoustic guitars, affecting backbeats and the occasional banjo and gospel chorus. Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024 Tranströmer, with his plainspoken, even stark, lyricism, seemed to me at first quite the opposite of heat. Tomas Tranströmer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 The plainspoken Padilla told story after story about each tenant, each street, in equal parts English and Spanish. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for plainspoken
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plainspoken
Adjective
  • Prince Harry and his father, King Charles III, have reunited amid the royal family's estrangement from the outspoken prince.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Lucy Liu has been quite outspoken in recent years, calling out the unjust treatment of women and the paucity of roles for non-white actors in Hollywood, and advocating for the rights of children through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), among other relevant topics.
    Brett Berk, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Simmons is a shell of his former self as a playmaker and was never able to develop a jump shot to at least keep defenses honest.
    Noah Camras, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And being honest about that helped build long-term trust.
    Greg Peters, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Titled Forever Our Girlfriend, the celebration takes place at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles, where Akil will sit down for a candid conversation with Hollywood Confidential founder Steve Jones.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Below, Cosgrove gets candid about growing up in the industry, why getting cast in The Wrong Paris felt like a dream, her favorite scene in the rom-com, whether an iCarly movie is really happening and more.
    Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • To be frank, that was unexpected.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The son of LeBron James, Bronny has heard the nepotism criticisms ever since getting a shot at the NBA, and to be quite frank, some of that has some validity to it.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Plainspoken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plainspoken. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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