Honest, straight-forward dealing, without branching off into underhand tricks, or deviating from the straight path into the by-ways of finesse.
“Round dealing is the honour of man’s nature.”—Bacon.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.