true confession
Sincere revealing statement
A true confession is an admission of wrongdoing, guilt, or secret behavior presented as honest and complete.
The term often appears in tabloid contexts—magazines and television programs featuring sensational personal revelations: True Confessions magazine, a true confession about her secret affair.
The phrase implies raw, unvarnished honesty, though such confessions may be embellished or fabricated for dramatic effect.
- admissionEntry or confession
- come cleanAdmit the full truth
- secretConcealed information
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- sinViolation of divine law
reveal · unburden · get it off your chest · priest · Catholic Church · whisper · diary · shame · honesty · moment of truth · regret · soul · heart · tearful · intimate · vulnerable · private · remorse
- honestyhonesty, candor, sincerity, dishonesty, frankness
- confessionsadmission, divulgence, acknowledgment, unburdening, reveal
- admissionsapplication, acceptance letter, admissions, application deadline, admissions committee
- memoirsmemoir, memoirs, autobiography, autobiographies, life story
true confessionlie
Deliberate falsehood
false confession · fabrication · cover story · falsehood · fiction
true confessioncover-up
Hiding wrongdoing from public
concealment · denial · secrecy · stonewalling · evasion
true confessioncoerced confession
Statement obtained through pressure
forced confession · cover-up · planted story · plea bargain · alibi
true, truths, truthful, truthfully, truthfulness, untrue, truism, truer, truest