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frank

/fɹæŋk/ adjective A2
  1. Honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised. · May I be frank with you?
  2. Unmistakable, clinically obvious, self-evident. · The research probes whether treating pre-diabetes with metformin can prevent progression to frank diabetes.

Comparative franker · Superlative frankest

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‘Let us be frank with this gentleman.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 60 · B2
Come, Miss Westbury, be absolutely frank with us.”
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 19 · B2
Otherwise I’d have gone to the park to hear the band play with Frank Stockley.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 294 · C1
Frank Stockley told me--his uncle is one of the board of governors, you know.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 295 · C1

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