naked truth
bare truth

Every word I had said to him was the naked truth.

"No one has been more in love with naked truth than you."

And there would be small comfort for him in the naked truth.

I thought that was what you valued: the cold, naked truth.

But he'd told her nothing except the naked, brutal truth.

After all, the leading officers of his fleet should be able to share the naked truth with him.

But here we have the naked truth from the mouth of that child.

He saw too late the naked truth: He'd been a willing player in this hypocrisy from the start.

Sometimes the naked truth worked better than anything else, and at the moment, he could t Think of nothing else to try.

I'm going to show you the hard, naked truth.