naked truth en · NOUN
Meanings
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The blunt, unfiltered facts or truth of a scenario or circumstance; reality.
2008, Linda Mi-Suk Enos, The Korean Palace of Honolulu, Condensed (6 x 9) Version, page 462, Silently Melissa listened to her mother as she softly convincingly spoke the raw naked truth the best way she knew how without shell shocking the girl.
Is naked truth actable in true life?
1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 76:Enjoy, Xavier, the Xenu: This is not B-sh-t, is the naked Truth!!! 2000 is the year of the end of C0$ 2000 is the beginning of the end of ETERNITY 2000 is the YEAR OF David Miscarriage's SQUIRRELING Miscarriage, K-ob-RIM, and Mor(xx)on SUCKS!!!
2000 January 31, marcab_4, “Fight the Marcabians !”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), retrieved 12 Jul 2022:We can offer ourselves the option of taking the red pill and, when the circumstances are right, we shall not be able to resist the lure of the naked truth; however hard it may be to stare it in the face.
2012, Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Halevi, Nicholas Theocarakis, Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World, →ISBN:My kid and her galpals all played this song five hundred thousand times in a row when they first brought it home...
2001, Kim Cooper, David Smay, Bubblegum music is the naked truth:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| naked truths | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
plain truth · fact of the matter
Translations (1)
fr vérité toute nue (unfiltered truth)