grim truth
Frequency: 7.513.0 per million words
the true but unpleasant facts about something
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Examples (10)
- We must face the grim truth about the environmental crisis.
- The grim truth is that funding has completely run out.
- He tried to shield his family from the grim truth of his illness.
- Slowly, the grim truth of their isolation began to sink in.
- It is time for the government to tell the public the grim truth.
- The report exposes the grim truth behind the accident statistics.
- She finally accepted the grim truth that he was never coming back.
- History often sanitizes the grim truth of ancient warfare.
- The documentary revealed the grim truth of life in the slums.
- Behind the glamour lies the grim truth of the industry.