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Synonyms & Antonyms of up-front
free in expressing one's true feelings and opinions
- some hurt feelings could have been spared if he'd been more up-front about whom he was inviting to the party
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Words Related to up-front
- artless,
- earnest,
- guileless,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- naive
- (or naïve),
- natural,
- real,
- sincere,
- unaffected,
- undesigning,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious
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The first known use of up-front was in 1937
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