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Mark075 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Difference beetwen frank / candid / honest / sincere

Hi, I'm curious about:
To be frank candid honest sincere.
In my dictionary they mean pretty the same. Can someone explain it? I'm sure it mainly depends on context in a sentence.
  

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The four words have a more or less similar meaning, but they typically are used in set expressions, like the following: 1. Let me be frank with you. You're a loser.

  • The four words have a more or less similar meaning, but they typically are used in set expressions, like the following: 1.
  • Let me be frank with you.
  • You're a loser.
  • 2.
  • That's my candid opinion of the situation.
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The four words have a more or less similar meaning, but they typically are used in set expressions, like the following:

1. Let me be frank with you. You're a loser.

2. That's my candid opinion of the situation. We shouldn't deal with this company.

3. To be honest with you, I think these folks are a bunch of crooks.

4. I'm being sincere with you. You shoul

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