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Webster 1913 Edition


Plain-dealing

Plain′-dealˊing

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Adj.
Practicing plain dealing; artless. See
Plain dealing
, under
Dealing
.
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Plain-dealing

PLAIN-DE'ALING

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Adj.
[plain and deal.] Dealing or communicating with frankness and sincerity; honest; open; speaking and acting without art; as a plain-dealing man.

PLAIN-DE'ALING

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Noun.
A speaking or communicating with openness and sincerity; management without art, stratagem or disguise; sincerity.