spade

IPA: spˈeɪd

A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
(card games) A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
(offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
A hart or stag three years old.
A castrated man or animal.
A surname.

Examples of "spade" in Sentences

Grandfather sighed, Ellen, let us call a spade a spade.
Let’s call a spade a spade (is a spade is a spade is a spade)
“We believe that failing to call a spade a spade is not scientific.” —
Oh, by the way Ryan the homo thinks that calling a spade a spade is racist.
And you have to, in a sense, respect them for that because they haven't done what I call spade work.
I think after a certain amount of time calling a spade a spade it becomes impossible to call it anything else.
I say he called it as he saw it, a spade is a spade (no pun intended) He is human and to have an opinion is just that, an opinion.
Transparency international applies a strict definition of corruption, since a lax attitude towards calling a spade a spade is part of the problem in terms of rooting out corruption.
But of course, the very reason most politicians avoid calling a spade a spade is that they know a great many people, including many Republicans, would recoil in horror if they ever got into specifics.