plain speakingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌpleɪn ˈspiː.kɪŋ/us/ˌpleɪn ˈspiː.kɪŋ/the act of saying clearly and honestly what you think without trying to be polite:
It's time for some plain speaking.
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Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- abrupt
- baldly
- blunt
- bluntly
- brusque
- brutal
- forward
- frank
- in a word idiom
- in the raw idiom
- man-to-man
- mince
- not mince (your) words idiom
- raw
- shoot from the hip idiom
- straight
- term
- terse
- unvarnished
- woman-to-woman
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Honesty, openness & sincerity
plain-spoken
adjective uk/ˌpleɪnˈspəʊ.kən/us/-ˈspoʊ-/
He's very plain-spoken.