Usually means: Uncompromisingly direct and brutally honest.
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  1. bare-knuckled: Merriam-Webster
  2. bare-knuckled: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bare-knuckled: Vocabulary.com
  4. bare-knuckled: Wordnik
  5. bare-knuckled: Wiktionary
  6. bare-knuckled: Dictionary.com
  7. bare-knuckled: Rhymezone
  8. bare-knuckled: FreeDictionary.org
  9. bare-knuckled: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. bare-knuckled: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bare-knuckled)

▸ adjective:  Synonym of bare-knuckle
▸ adjective:  Without boxing gloves
▸ adjective:  Ruthlessly competitive

Similar:
knuckly, knuckled, knucklesome, narrow-fisted, knuckleheadish, knucklelike, knappy, knopped, bare-boobed, knagged, more...

Opposite:
gloved, padded, protected, covered

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Similar:
knuckly, knuckled, knucklesome, narrow-fisted, knuckleheadish, knucklelike, knappy, knopped, bare-boobed, knagged, more...

Opposite:
gloved, padded, protected, covered



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