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Meanings of painfully honest in English

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Usage of painfully honest in English
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Yet he is painfully honest about the perennial danger that he will fall again.
The Guardian
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The fellow was painfully honest; good stuff there, iron... the iron of the Pennys.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
3
It is a painfully honest, moving account of her courtship, wedding and failed marriage.
The Irish Times
4
Much depends upon it and it'll spoil everything if you aren't perfectly, painfully honest.
Snake and Sword: A Novel
5
He was being painfully honest, and he probably had the facts down better than anyone.
Table for five
6
Caesar was partial to love affairs -or ,tobe more painfully honest, to sex affairs.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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She is indeed a most painfully honest accompanist.
Pixie O'Shaughnessy
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She had been painfully honest with him, far more than he would have dared with a stranger.
The cottage
9
The session topics themselves set the stage for rich, painfully honest dialogue about race and class power dynamics.
Ebony
10
I just know that right now I'd rather be dead than dating. As always, she was painfully honest.
Impossible
11
Arthur was painfully honest with him.
Kaleidoscope
12
In this painfully honest memoir she chronicles her 10-year struggle to control -and come to (...)
The Irish Times
13
You are too painfully honest.'
Edison: His Life and Inventions
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What the hell do I know? He was being painfully honest with her and she wasn't ready for it.
Lightning
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In this painfully honest memoir she chronicles her 10-year struggle to control -and come to terms with -her weight.
The Irish Times
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In this series, writer Tom Kapinos can be, if only vicariously, fearlessly and painfully honest with a variety of pretentious people.
Reuters
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