be honest/frank

idiom

: to speak in a very direct or truthful way

To be perfectly/quite honest/frank (with you), I didn't like the movie.

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Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive. —

Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2025 The first few plays, to be honest, weren’t the kind that would make any ESPN highlight reel. —

Peter Ji, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2025 An eighty-per-cent chance of survival from a potentially lethal injury is, to be honest, pretty good odds—possibly better than the chances that either of these blood substitutes will make it into therapeutic use. —

Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 Gilbert Flores/Getty Images Lady Gaga styled her lacy Victorian look with a black pendant, which just adds to the spookiness, to be honest! —

Sam Reed, Glamour, 3 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for be honest/frank

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