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71honest — I adjective aboveboard, accurate, actual, artless, as represented, authentic, bald, blunt, candid, clean, conscientious, correct, creditable, decent, downright, earnest, equitable, erect, estimable, ethical, evenhanded, exact, factual, fair, fair …
72straightforward — I adjective aboveboard, apertus, artless, candid, direct, forthright, frank, guileless, honest, honorable, ingenuous, legitimate, open, outspoken, plain spoken, scrupulous, simplex, sincere, straight, truth speaking, truthful, unaffected,… …
73unaffected — I (sincere) adjective aboveboard, artless, candid, candidus, childlike, direct, downright, forthright, frank, free from affectation, guileless, honest, inartificial, ingenuous, innocent, modest, naive, natural, open, outspoken, plain, plainspoken …
74genuine — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. true, right, real, authentic; sincere, real, unaffected; honest, valid. See goodness, purity, truth. Ant., fake, false. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Real; said of things ] Syn. authentic, true, actual …
75sincere — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. honest, genuine; ingenuous, forthright, unreserved, candid; cordial, hearty, earnest. See truth, feeling, probity. Ant., insincere, feigned. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Genuine] Syn. real, actual,… …
76transparent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. translucent (see transparency); manifest, candid, obvious. See evidence, visibility, coherence, simpleness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Allowing light to pass through] Syn. clear, translucent, lucid …
77unguarded — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. inadvertent, thoughtless, incautious; with one s guard down; not guarded. See danger, inattention. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. thoughtless, frank, careless, unwary, heedless, offhand, casual,… …
78general — [13] General is one of a vast range of English words which go back ultimately to the prehistoric Indo European base *gen , *gon , *gn , denoting ‘produce’. Its Germanic offshoots include kin, kind, and probably king, but for sheer numbers it is… …
79ingenious — [15] Ingenious used to be a more elevated term than it is today. To begin with it meant ‘highly intelligent’, but already by the 16th century it was starting to come down in the world somewhat to ‘cleverly inventive’. It comes, partly via French… …
80disingenuous — lacking in candor, 1650s, from DIS (Cf. dis ) opposite of + INGENUOUS (Cf. ingenuous). Related: Disingenuously; disingenuousness …
