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They could talk together knowing that each would understand the other, and Muriel's downrightness did not offend Mrs. Clinton.

From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald

But there was more democratic outspokenness, more middle-class downrightness, and less of the Constitutional Club and drawing-room element in those ante-du Maurier days.

From The History of "Punch" by Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)

The downrightness of Marjorie Rogers was both notorious and embarrassing.

From John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall by Jenkins, Herbert George

I may note here that the power of Epicurism as a faith depended also largely on the directness, downrightness, and audacity of its system, working on minds weary of philosophers' disputations and political quarrels.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

"I know that," she told him, with a swift return to her old downrightness.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.