bluntlyadverb
uk/ˈblʌnt.li/us/ˈblʌnt.li/If you speak bluntly, you speak without trying to be polite or considering other people's feelings:
She told me bluntly that I should lose weight.
To put it bluntly, I can't afford it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- abrupt
- baldly
- blunt
- brusque
- brutal
- call a spade a spade idiom
- forward
- frank
- in the raw idiom
- man-to-man
- mince
- not mince (your) words idiom
- not pull any/your punches idiom
- raw
- shoot from the hip idiom
- straight
- term
- terse
- unvarnished
- woman-to-woman
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