franksome

comparative more franksome · superlative most franksome

1. Marked or characterised by frankness

   Pixies of franksome moods / Dreams of delight!

   1845, The New Monthly Belle Assemblée

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   For still as one by one they grew / To Childhood's franksome years, / They one by one were torn away / To bondage and to tears.

   1836, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Essays, Philanthropic and Moral

   Ay, ay, a franksome lad — a ne'er-do-well; [...]

   1863, Charles Swain, Art and Fashion

   I might have easily attached myself to one of the franksome young gypsies who were about me, and who put forth many a lure, but my heart was unalterably wedded to Francesca; [...]

   1869, Edward Vaughan Kenealy, An Autobiography