honest
Let's be brutally honest about this, he's not a great singer.
The dessert tasted like toothpaste, if I'm brutally honest.
It's important to be brutally honest with ourselves about the consequences of our actions.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
acerbic
acerbically
acerbity
acidly
anti-cruelty
cruel
cruelly
cruelty
cruelty to someone/something
cutthroat
meanness
mental cruelty
merciless
mercilessly
mordant
trenchant
trenchantly
uncharitable
uncharitably
unchristian
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Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour