The Collaborative International Dictionary
Straightforward \Straight`for"ward\, a. Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv. In a straightforward manner. -- Straight`for"ward*ly, adv. -- Straight`for"ward*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a straightforward manner.
WordNet
adv. with firmness and conviction; without compromise; "he stood foursquare for religious liberty and toleration"- C.G.Bowers; "dealt straightforwardly with all issues" [syn: squarely, foursquare]
Usage examples of "straightforwardly".
I answered her straightforwardly that I had no property and no prospects, that I left her free, advising her not to refuse any offer which might be to her advantage.
He is modeled after the famous anticommunist and lawyer and businessman named, straightforwardly enough, one would have to say, Roy M.
I answered her straightforwardly that I had no property and no prospects, that I left her free, advising her not to refuse any offer which might be to her advantage.
A multitude of labs had started in enthusiastically using many different forms of learning paradigms, often taken over very straightforwardly from the experimental psychologists.
One could store a whole host of different programs on casette tapes, and simply pick out whichever was needed, and use it: but the cassettes were still, all the same, just ordinary cassettes, and if one played the tape straightforwardly in the normal way on a cassette player, as I had done, one heard the vibrating whine.