straightness
IPA: strˈeɪtnʌs
noun
- (countable) The result or product of being straight.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being straight (especially in the sense of "heterosexual").
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Examples of "straightness" in Sentences
- Let it be clear: This issue has nothing to do with gayness or straightness, which is irrelevant to this report.
- Indeed, "straightness" is biological, but it entails an almost limitless set of moral choices when it comes to its expression.
- When someone tries to release a tape of said Republican making out in an elevator with a (married) lady to prove his straightness, that is, indeed, high comedy.
- Their first talk left Ralph with a dazzled sense of Moffatt's strength and keenness, but with a vague doubt as to the "straightness" of the proposed transaction.
- When we have mastered the notion of straightness, we have also mastered that aspect of it expressed by the affirmation that two straight lines can not inclose a space.
- The qualities that seem to have attracted Karin Boye in these poems are the ones associated with emotional and spiritual directness, or 'erectness' or 'straightness' - rakhet.
- I think people expect a certain kind of straightness from their candidates, and when he would get up on stage with a light saber and stuff, I mean, he won my heart and those of a lot of other people, but I think generally people were nervous about that.
- It is not for undergrads, and I'm not sure I'd even read the whole thing myself, but the intro ... and I think first chapter ... make an argument about male sexuality being quite different than our contemporary notions of heterosexuality and "straightness" in terms of desired object choice.
- The tools of craftsmanship will be seen to be intermediaries between the judging worker and the judged object, disclosing to the experimenter the particular character of the matter under investigation: thus a ruler, representing at once the straightness which is in the mind and the straightness of a plank, is used as an intermediary by which the operator proves his work.
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