Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who expresses his opinions with plainness; one who is frank, honest, and open in speaking and acting.
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Examples
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I'm a plain-dealer, Madam, with all my faults, and 't is easy to be seen your daughters are a world's wonder.
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Accept me therefore as a plain-dealer, Madam, and have the goodness to read what I cannot speak.
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Did you never meet a plain-dealer to give you a dose of candour?
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894
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And you shall understand that I am a plain-dealer in such affairs when they concern this realm, and have bled little heifers like you whiter than veal and as cold as most of the dead; and will do it again if need be. '
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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My lord, says I, I am going to be the plain-dealer once more; if for the last time, so much the better, for I am grown weary of the part.
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WH E N I was firft called to the office of hiftorioffrapher to John Bully ht (ixpreffcd himfelf to this purpofe: Sir Humphry Polefworth *,/know you are a plain-dealer I it is for that reafon I have chofenyoufor this important trufl; fpeak the truths andfpafe Hot.
The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin 1768
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