forwardness

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But perhaps the artist world balks at such straight forwardness.

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offensive boldness and assertiveness

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noun

offensive boldness and assertiveness

noun

an advanced stage; "the forwardness of the harvest this year"; "the arts are in no kind of forwardness in this matter"

noun

prompt willingness; "readiness to continue discussions"; "they showed no eagerness to spread the gospel"; "they disliked his zeal in demonstrating his superiority"; "he tried to explain his forwardness in battle"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for forwardness.

noun

offensive boldness and assertiveness

See also: bumptiousness, cockiness, pushiness

noun

an advanced stage; "the forwardness of the harvest this year"; "the arts are in no kind of forwardness in this matter"

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Example sentences

But perhaps the artist world balks at such straight forwardness.

It's not going to be great for everyone, but I like the straight forwardness of it.

I want simplicity and straight-forwardness of a single mouse click.

I think you overestimate the straight-forwardness of this.

When you have a job, spend part of looking for the next one - but temper your forwardness, your obviousness about this to the culture in which you work.

I hope the creator of the icons is not upset by my forwardness, but I've converted these icons to bootstrap style icons for easy use.

I think there is a point of diminishing returns when you are sacrificing simplicity and straight-forwardness for mouse clicks.

The difference between us is like night and day."Forgive my forwardness, but it's my sense that you don't have a financing problem, but rather, a pricing problem.

A level of straight-forwardness that I'm not even comfortable fully describing here, as an example, on a throwaway.

From the instigator of XML, which is generally respected as beacon of simplicity, straight-forwardness and common sense[1].

Stephen is an excellent example here: he has the sheer intellect and forwardness of self-examination to know it can't be beat without looking at all factors and wouldn't presume to say that it's solved with drugs, or therapy, alone.