Usually means: Communicating clearly, without embellishment.
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  1. plain-speaking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. plain-speaking: Wordnik
  3. plain-speaking: Wiktionary

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▸ adjective:  Synonym of plain-spoken

Similar:
prosaic, parlante, pragmatical, speakerly, ekphrastic, publical, pluralistical, playn, plebeian, pleonasmic, more...

Opposite:
evasive, ambiguous, obscure, unclear, indirect

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Similar:
prosaic, parlante, pragmatical, speakerly, ekphrastic, publical, pluralistical, playn, plebeian, pleonasmic, more...

Opposite:
evasive, ambiguous, obscure, unclear, indirect



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