plain dealer
nounEtymology
From plain + dealer, after plain dealing.
Definitions
Someone who interacts or does business straightforwardly and honestly.
- Ant. Why thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit. S. Dro. The plainer dealer, the sooner lost; yet he looseth it in a kind of iollitie.
- She as often acted the Plain-Dealer with him, and fairly told him [...] that, in Truth, she had nothign but a very Small Spot to which she had any Hereditary Right [...].
- ‘If plain speakers are scarce in this part of the world, I fancy that plain dealers are still scarcer.’
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA