Dictionary / Vocabulary / 正確に言えば
せいかくにいえば
to be precise; to be accurate; strictly speaking
Also written 正確にいえば
正確に言えば、彼が悪い。
To be accurate, he is to blame.
私は教授です、いやもっと正確に言えば、助教授です。
I'm a professor, or rather an associate professor, to be exact.