Sentence examples for overly honest from inspiring English sources

He was the philosophical barman in Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce (1963), who tells Jack Lemmon: "To be overly honest in a dishonest world is like plucking a chicken against the wind – you'll only end up with a mouthful of feathers".

You can find her overly honest account of life on her blog, Olive and Tate or follow all of the crazy on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

People with Aspergers are often overly honest to a fault.

How honest is too honest?

He continued, "My concern is that we're going to have an honest but overly emotional debate about immigration, and we'll say things for the moment, in the primary chase, that will make it very difficult for us to win in November.

Hoffenheim refused to wilt even with the tie quickly beyond them and defenders running around like "headless chickens", to quote their honest and overly-ambitious coach.

Now gearing up for its third series in the US, Awkward is perhaps most notable for its frank preoccupation with sex, which it approaches in an honest but never overly salacious fashion; it's more interested in the questions that follow the act than the events that lead up to it.

I'll be honest, I hate overly complicated control schemes and basketball games fall into this category.

Not to overly glamorize or be cruelly honest.

I get that piracy is a problem, but broken log ins and overly complex crypto-keys only punish honest customers.

To be honest, I was not overly alarmed at the time and thought it wouldn't be a great hardship living without this section of my leg, but it turned out I was wrong about that.