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Meanings of brutal frankness in English

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Usage of brutal frankness in English
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To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy.
Peter Pan
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He has a sort of brutal frankness which can't keep a secret.
Driven from Home; Or, Carl Crawford's Experience
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The brutal frankness of the former commissary, gave Madame Raquin a painful shock.
Theresa Raquin
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His mouth twitched angrily and he faced her, speaking with cold, brutal frankness.
The Foolish Virgin
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You succeed in doing that; no tenderness can survive the brutal frankness of your meetings.
Moral
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He added, with the brutal frankness of the savage: Besides, you have not long to live.
The Red One
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Theirs might be a blunt and brutal frankness, but they were at least downright and truthful.
Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-known Engl...
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Now, with almost brutal frankness, Neil had explained to him the meaning of his strange posture.
The Courage of Captain Plum
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The woman's brutal frankness touched her at last.
The Lady Doc
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She realized these two facts suddenly and vividly; her mind worked with a brutal frankness at times.
Senator North
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Pratt's brutal frankness had cleared his own thought and re-aroused his sense of proprietorship in the girl.
The Tyranny of the Dark
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And if he had, he probably would have been shocked, not inspired, by its almost brutal frankness.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 / Little J...
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Noel would have won her easier by a brutal frankness that would have shown her clearly his situation.
The Lerouge Case
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The next speaker made his attack on the corruption and graft of our system of government with brutal frankness.
The Root of Evil
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This brutal frankness displeased Félicité.
The Fortune of the Rougons
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At the beginning of the Second Dutch War Monk had said with brutal frankness, What matters this or that reason?
A History of Sea Power
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