frankness
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Frankness isn’t a flaw, and it will help your daughter in the long run that she doesn’t have to untangle a knot of metaphors and tall tales in order to conceptualize death.
From Slate • Oct. 8, 2018
Frankness, however, is an unusual attribute in the Washington corridors of power.
From BBC • Aug. 29, 2014
Opening gun of the late Mr. Bok's campaign was fired in March 1906, in an editorial headed "Frankness With Children."
From Time Magazine Archive
Frankness may furnish information for which crocodile tears are no substitute.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frankness and candor itself in all her dealings, she never condescended to impute secret motives to another; and the very thought of anything like mystery was absolutely repugant to her nature.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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