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单词 forwardness
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forwardnessnoun [ U ]

uk/ˈfɔː.wəd.nəs/us/ˈfɔːr.wɚd.nəs/disapproving

the quality of being confident and honest in a way that ignores the usual social rules and might seem rude

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour

  • abrupt
  • baldly
  • blunt
  • bluntly
  • brusque
  • brutal
  • forward
  • frank
  • in the raw idiom
  • man-to-man
  • mince
  • not mince (your) words idiom
  • not pull any/your punches idiom
  • raw
  • shoot from the hip idiom
  • straight
  • term
  • terse
  • unvarnished
  • woman-to-woman

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Confidence & self-assurance

Examples from literature

  • Hence she has been praised by some for her courage, and blamed by others for her forwardness. 
  • Such indeed is the force of prejudice, that what was called spirit and wit in him, was cruelly repressed as forwardness in me. 
  • Suddenly meeting The clear eyes, he smiled, and then shrank inwardly at his forwardness. 
  • They showed neither forwardness nor timidity, but greeted each other and their host with grown-up dignity and formality. 
  • Yet there's nothing of forwardness, nothing of impertinence. 
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