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Significados de directness en inglés

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The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech.

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        sinceritat
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        lo directo

        Trueness of course toward a goal.

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            Uso de directness en inglés
            1
            Growing suddenly serious, she regarded him with a look of unsettling directness.
            Hood
            2
            The simple directness of the spoken word has been allowed to stand.
            Quiet Talks on Following the Christ
            3
            The Princess talked on in a fashion of perfect simplicity and directness.
            His Hour
            4
            The corporal raised his head and replied with the same peasant-like directness:
            The Downfall
            5
            There was a straight-forward directness in the gaze of his blue eyes.
            The Forfeit
            6
            The officer replied with a directness that rose superior to personal curiosity.
            The Tyranny of Weakness
            7
            The directness of the answer, given in a shy voice, astonished him.
            A Mating in the Wilds
            8
            But the style has the directness and sincerity of all his writings.
            Washington in Domestic Life. From Original Letters and Manuscrip...
            9
            And the return of the wanderer was set forth with graphic directness.
            The Colossus: A Novel
            10
            With all its faults the style has the merits of masculine directness.
            Samuel Johnson
            11
            No sincerity or directness anywhere in him, and very little real courage.
            The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel
            12
            The coarse bluntness and directness of the man did not offend her.
            Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
            13
            Poor Mrs. Lee was quite disconcerted by the directness of the attack.
            Democracy, an American novel
            14
            But the chief peculiarity of his speech was its directness and appositeness.
            War and Peace
            15
            Alton laughed, and Miss Deringham found something pleasant in his naive directness.
            Alton of Somasco: A Romance of the Great Northwest
            16
            Never had men more simplicity of purpose, more directness in its execution.
            The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 23: 1576
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