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Meanings of straightness in English

Portuguese
heterossexualidade
Catalan
heterosexualitat
Wikidata

A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex.

heterossexualidade
Catalan
sinceritat
Spanish
lo directo

Trueness of course toward a goal.

sinceritat
Portuguese
retitude

Freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles.

retitude

(Of hair) lack of a tendency to curl.

Antonyms
Examples for "curliness"
Examples for "curliness"
1
Mademoiselle's hair is stopped in its growth by this extreme curliness.
My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
2
Her yellow hair was put away as straight as its natural curliness would allow.
Cousin Phillis
3
It was a strip of flocculent, sheepy-looking, little cloudlets that suggested curliness and innocence.
Over Prairie Trails
4
I was too curly already, but Phyllis said natural curliness was not the thing any more.
Sunny Slopes
5
Her hair, fair and inclined to curliness, had escaped bounds a little, and she brushed it impatiently back.
The Survivor
Usage of straightness in English
1
But in the new portions there was not this adherence to straightness.
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; Or, The Hidden City of the Andes
2
It loads at the breech, and fires with great force and straightness.
Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
3
This was intended to preserve the straightness and grace of her figure.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
4
Its flood pools, all the frightening straightness of its line, still here.
Voice of the Fire
5
We show that progesterone positively affects microtubule plus-end growth and track straightness.
Pubmed
6
Looking back when they nooned, Harding noticed the straightness of their course.
The Intriguers
7
And in the circumstances straightness was to be preferred to distance.
The Clicking of Cuthbert
8
But it was only the result of the military straightness of his body.
The Man in the Twilight
9
He turned then, and saw her sitting with unwonted straightness at the table.
The Nest Builder: A Novel
10
The straightness of her nose was certainly comforting, but it, too, was short.
The Freelands
11
I flatter myself Lady Ailesbury's arm has recovered its straightness and its cunning.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
12
We were discussing the merits of directness in speech and straightness in every way.
Phyllis of Philistia
13
The tracing is remarkable only from its simplicity and the straightness of the lines.
The Power of Movement in Plants
14
The professional straightness of his figure relaxed into the elastic grace of an athlete.
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 2
15
She paused again and the line of her mouth took on a grimmer straightness.
Stubble
16
The majority were Norwegians, whose courage and straightness of character are matters beyond doubt.
Notes on Life & Letters
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Straightness through the time
Straightness across language varieties
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