Synonyms for up-front:
adj. straightforward
Examples of uses:
What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
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Title: The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol, author: William J. Locke, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26154/26154-h/26154-h.htm
Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.
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Title: The Giant of the North, author: R.M. Ballantyne, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21733/21733-h/21733-h.htm
Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.
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Title: The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29419/29419-h/29419-h.htm
In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.
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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV., author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13306/13306-h/13306-h.htm
The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
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Title: Physiology of The Opera, author: John H. Swaby (AKA "Scrici"), url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31880/31880-h/31880-h.htm
I was busy loading the piece when an exclamation of surprise from one of the men made me look up.
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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV., author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13306/13306-h/13306-h.htm
Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.
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Title: The Giant of the North, author: R.M. Ballantyne, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21733/21733-h/21733-h.htm
She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
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Title: The Homesteader, author: Oscar Micheaux, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39238/39238-h/39238-h.htm
A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
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Title: The Red Year, author: Louis Tracy, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36478/36478-h/36478-h.htm
When we'd finished, one of the hunters rounded up the horses and we caught our nags and saddled them.
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Title: Raw Gold, author: Bertrand W. Sinclair, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18563/18563-h/18563-h.htm
