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noundirect and honest conduct in one's relations and transactions with others. Origin of plain dealingFirst recorded in 1560–70 Words nearby plain dealingplain bearing, plainchant, plain chocolate, plain clothes, plainclothesman, plain dealing, Plainfield, plain film, plain flour, plain Jane, plain knit Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for plain dealingYet, to all appearance, he was plain-dealing and easy-natured, his business shrewdness was so well wadded round with fat. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris|Honore de Balzac And this word best expresses the feeling with which plain-dealing probity contemplates the fate of the overthrown July monarch. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 70, No. 433, November 1851|Various It was only in appearance that Colonel Philippe retained the frankness, plain-dealing, and easy-going freedom of a soldier. The Two Brothers|Honore de Balzac We soldiers are plain-dealing men, and cannot understand all this mining and counter-mining. General Bounce|G. J. Whyte-Melville
Words related to plain dealinggenuine, sincere, unequivocal, candid, truthful, forthright, aboveboard, barefaced, direct, frank, guileless, honorable, just, level, mellow, open, outspoken, plain, straight, unconcealed |