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baldly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
baldly
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Heather suggested baldly that Ms. Lane was mentally unstable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And what they all display, rather too baldly though highly effectively, is the simple economic importance of the Ocean.
▪ Barley is much too astute to state this baldly, but it informs his every strategy as author.
▪ How quickly he was able to lie, how baldly, quick and bald, and it lifted his spirit.
▪ There's something baldly there about him which inclines me, like Kevin, to distrust anything he says.
▪ Yet he could forget his learning too, baldly enjoying the phenomena produced.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baldly

Baldly \Bald"ly\, adv. Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.

Wiktionary
baldly

adv. In a bald manner.

WordNet
baldly

adv. in a bald manner; "this book is, to put it baldly, an uneven work."

Usage examples of "baldly".

If the situation were what Vascay baldly stated, the gang would be gone already and Metron would still be on the bottom of the pond.

For although her conversation, baldly recorded here, may suggest that Miss McGuckin was censorious and demanding, it must be remembered that she was only eighteen, and the charm of youth clouded the sharp outlines of her essential character.

Of course I have described it baldly, but as I have said, the spirit of Ahriman was in that room.

Let me state it boldly and baldly: there is no such planet as "Earth," whether it is given its local reputed name or "Blito-P3" in a pretended location on astrograph­ic charts.

But government investigators turned in reports that baldly denied a majority of the abnormalities, which had already been witnessed by neutral observers.