Critical and Calling a spade a spade

Critical adjective - Given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things.

Calling a spade a spade and critical are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Calling a spade a spade" instead an adjective "Critical".

Nearby Words: criticize, criticise, criticism, critic, critically

Critical and calling a spade a spade are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Critical" instead an adjective phrase "Calling a spade a spade".