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FRANKLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that
Example:
frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Domain usage:
intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)
Pertainym:
frank (characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion)
Context examples:
If you are still capable of self-improvement, of which I am frankly unconvinced, you will surely return to London a wiser man.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The tears were streaming frankly down his cheeks.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
"You have," I said frankly, but at the same time, as I felt, brutally.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
If money is not the matter involved, you may be distressed when a friend comments frankly on your choice of steady date or spouse.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I saw even that to be thus frankly addressed on a subject he had deemed unapproachable—to hear it thus freely handled—was beginning to be felt by him as a new pleasure—an unhoped-for relief.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“I never have,” said Alleyne frankly, “though I have oft heard talk of their deeds.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Stand forward, Ambrose, and tell your story as frankly and as fully as you have told it to me.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am going far to screen you, Lady Hilda. In return you will spend the time in telling me frankly the real meaning of this extraordinary affair.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Frankly, then, madam, I do not.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He spoke with fire and conviction, mincing no words in his attack upon the slaves and their morality and tactics and frankly alluding to his hearers as the slaves in question.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
