单词 | outrightness |
释义 | outrightnessn. The quality of being outright in speech or thought; directness, straightforwardness; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] > straightforwardness or frankness openness1605 open-heartedness1611 ingenuity1614 frankness1668 unreservedness1713 straightforwardness1805 yaefauldness1864 outrightness1865 1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys xxvi. 250 It was the outrightness that pleased him, was it? 1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 369 Simplicity of style, plainness of language, or outrightness of thought. 1923 H. Nicolson Tennyson vii. 213 Tennyson emerges as a figure of extraordinary outrightness. 1961 A. Sillitoe Key to Door (1962) iv. xxvi. 385 Bert..looked at him slyly, shut one eye, and demanded: ‘She's having a kid?’—at the same time offering a fag from a ten-pack to mollify such outrightness. 1997 Independent (Nexis) 6 Oct. 16 His outrightness in person and his capacity for the devilish phrase promise to make this a publishing sensation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1865 |
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