bluntly
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“A lot of customers will ask me if I would wear these costumes, and I tell them bluntly: ‘I would never wear this.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
One NOS member put it more bluntly in a TV documentary five years later: "We were sticking two fingers up to normal, middle-class church ways of behaviour."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
“Besides being in bad taste, there are many reasons why this prank is, to put it bluntly, stupid and potentially dangerous,” the department said in a statement at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Michael Hill, a professor of chemistry at Occidental College, puts it more bluntly: "LASIK is just a fancy way of doing traditional surgery. It's still carving tissue -- it's just carving with a laser."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Pa has never spoken so bluntly to me before, and slowly the reality of what he says sinks in.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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