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OPENLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an open way
Example:
he openly flaunted his affection for his sister
Classified under:
Pertainym:
open (affording free passage or access)
Context examples:
The craving was all the stronger because I durst not speak openly about it, for the least hint of it brought the tears into my mother’s eyes.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr. Livesey were talking together on the quarter-deck, and anxious as I was to tell them my story, I durst not interrupt them openly.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Otherwise why should not her luggage have been openly labelled for Baden?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He openly threatened the other’s leadership.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
At times, too, when the wild fit was upon her, she would break into pertness and rebel openly against Alleyne's gentle firmness.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the meantime I took every precaution to defend my person in case the fiend should openly attack me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient talk openly about very personal or private matters not usually discussed in public?
(NPI - Talk Openly About Very Personal or Private Matters, NCI Thesaurus)
She had wanted him to devote himself to study, and, though she had not openly disapproved of his writing, she had never approved.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
This was the first time of her brother's openly siding against her, and anxious to avoid his displeasure, she proposed a compromise.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Old Ebbits looked at me in childlike wonder, while Zilla sneered openly at the absurdity of my question.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
