What some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

They show what's going on with a kind of straightforwardness you would expect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of the Day: Bee-Bim Bop] Reference

It was exactly the kind of straightforwardness the people are expecting from us right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union 2011: reactions] Reference

This is a sample of the kind of straightforwardness to which Mr. Holliday adheres.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Winter Comes to Main Street] Reference

His honesty and straightforwardness were proverbial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference

Courage and straightforwardness saves a lot of trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference

Not marked by either depth or honesty or straightforwardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2007] Reference

Sally settled the question with her usual straightforwardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phyllis A Twin] Reference

DOBBS: Well, you're getting into straightforwardness, general.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2005] Reference

A simple straightforwardness was one of Reggie's characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference

It has the same simplicity and straightforwardness as Greek sculpture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

The little spaceman had come to like the straightforwardness of Roger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger in Deep Space] Reference

You have a responsibility for absolute honesty and straightforwardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007] Reference

And there won't be transparency and there won't be straightforwardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2008] Reference

Thank you so much for your honesty and straightforwardness this morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2002] Reference

They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of War] Reference

The straightforwardness, the transparency, the honesty, the shared sacrifice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Luck and Trouble]

The straightforwardness of the lyrics is amazing, and it's so hard to do that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dirty Projectors Let Black Flag Fly] Reference

And candidly, a little more straightforwardness I think is needed at this time.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2007] Reference

The straightforwardness of this passage is of a piece with the rest of the poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

There was a curious straightforwardness about Lottie, even while she schemed and plotted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference

Shame flooded her, but at the same time, his daring and straightforwardness were compelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

It is the time for fearlessness and straightforwardness if there ever was one in our history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

I think any of us are troubled by the lack of straightforwardness out of this administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 29, 2008] Reference

And it might have cost him, that straightforwardness, a couple of most valuable player awards.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2002] Reference

This straightforwardness makes the mysteries at the heart of this searing novel even more unnerving.    From Wordnik.com.  [A BLEAK BOOK YOU CAN'T PUT DOWN] Reference

While unused to society, yet there was an honest straightforwardness about her that was very charming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference

Richness of vestment and mannerism of expression took the place of simplicity and straightforwardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

It was a mental straightforwardness and conscientiousness, as rare, perhaps, as moral rectitude itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference

The first is its straightforwardness, the second is its unconsciousness, and the last its unselfishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference

The straightforwardness is remarkable in this circumstance, that there is no indirect coming to the point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference

There was a general return to Nature, to simplicity, to straightforwardness -- not without imagination, however.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference

There is no affectation of elegance, but rather knightly straightforwardness which has power without lack of ease.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

With what singleness of purpose, what straightforwardness, what courage, were all the motives of his actions guided!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference

Chesterton treats the whole of this period with a calm straightforwardness that we are not accustomed to in his writings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference

A morning paper called it "a little classic of straightforwardness"; but his king-maker aloft thought his bearing too simple by far.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Henchman] Reference

But the style of the seventeenth century ballads cannot be compared to the noble straightforwardness and simplicity of the ancient ballad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference

But her anchor of truth and straightforwardness was the thing of all others that she relied on for safety, and she did not let go her hold.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference