plain dealer

noun

Etymology

From plain + dealer, after plain dealing.

Definitions

  1. 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