Telling the truth bluntly and rudely, without considering feelings.
While often considered an unlikeable trait, brutal honesty is not inherently bad.
Do you need an opinion on something, but don't want the person to lie, lest they make you feel bad? Ask your brutally honest friend. Brutal honesty is also helpful for getting through to people who live in their own little fantasy world.
For example, in shows such as Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen, do you think Gordon Ramsay would be taken seriously (or be even remotely successful in his goals) if he was polite? Probably not. But here's something to ponder: He actually IS very polite in person, and when someone genuinely wants to improve, he supports them fully; he just doesn't beat around the bush and tells it like it is, because that's what some people need to hear.
While often considered an unlikeable trait, brutal honesty is not inherently bad.
Do you need an opinion on something, but don't want the person to lie, lest they make you feel bad? Ask your brutally honest friend. Brutal honesty is also helpful for getting through to people who live in their own little fantasy world.
For example, in shows such as Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen, do you think Gordon Ramsay would be taken seriously (or be even remotely successful in his goals) if he was polite? Probably not. But here's something to ponder: He actually IS very polite in person, and when someone genuinely wants to improve, he supports them fully; he just doesn't beat around the bush and tells it like it is, because that's what some people need to hear.
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Get the Brutal Honesty mug.Usually comes about on a Sunday, an "Honesty Hour" is used to describe a period of time when male friends get together and openly admit which female friends they would kidnap, lock in a basement and father children on.
1. Forget the shopping, I'm off to honesty hour
2. God, that honesty hour got out of hand
3. Wade: "Imagine if the Police bugged our house and recorded our honesty hour"
Nic: "We would all be going to jail for rape and murder"
2. God, that honesty hour got out of hand
3. Wade: "Imagine if the Police bugged our house and recorded our honesty hour"
Nic: "We would all be going to jail for rape and murder"
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Man: Talking to you is so frustrating
Woman: Wow that was a jerk move
Man: It was brutal honesty, babe.
Woman: Oh okay, never mind then! :D
Woman: Wow that was a jerk move
Man: It was brutal honesty, babe.
Woman: Oh okay, never mind then! :D
by Oliver Woodstock October 13, 2011
Get the Brutal Honesty mug.(1)One best friend: “Let’s have sad hour”
Other best friend : “ Ok, but then we can have honesty sex”
(1): “what’s that?”
(2) “Lets look it up on urban dictionary”
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(1): “what’s that?”
(2) “Lets look it up on urban dictionary”
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