All 4 Uses
forthright
in
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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- Snow Flower regarded me in the same forthright way she had in the palanquin.†
Chpt 5 *
- Now I realized she'd broken from the traditional stylized lines used by wives in their letters and was using her nu shu to write more candidly and forthrightly about her life.†
Chpt 13
- A friend would have been honest and forthright.†
Chpt 17
- But it's hard to be truly generous and behave in a forthright manner when you don't know how.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(forthright) honest and direct in speaking or behavior -- even when it’s uncomfortable
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, forthright may mean to proceed immediately as in: "I shall depart forthright."