In an obvious way

Usage examples of patently.

You could go back perhaps, he hasarded, still thinking of the very unpleasant scene at Westland Row terminus when it was perfectly evident that the other two, Mulligan, that is, and that English tourist friend of his, who eventually euchred their third companion, were patently trying as if the whole bally station belonged to them to give Stephen the slip in the confusion, which they did.

In those idyls clustering about King Arthur, Tennyson has patently purposed painting the figure of a perfect man.

All eyes were on Omber, who had produced from a bag she was carrying something which all present recognized by its unique odor: a farspeaker, smaller, yet patently more powerful, than they had ever seen before.

Sadly, there was always a significant number of expeditions that encountered nothing more exciting than fetid jungles, smarmy natives, and dull animals that were so patently stupid that they would wander directly in front of you and politely wait while you dug the old .

Perhaps because of the too abrupt swing from the fear of thinking that Gray might actually be injured, and lying helpless and unaware in some distant hospital, to the bitter reality of his arrival home whole and unhurt, and so patently uncaring of the anxiety, the fear he had caused her, never mind the fact that he was so late when he had known that she was going out, had been the cause of her unexpectedly intense anger.

Patently he had been equally carefully wiped of any knowledge that might incriminate whoever had sent him, by interrogational technicians at least as capable as those whom the Archimandrite commanded.

Miss Mannering did not seem offended by so ungainly an exhibition, though the innkeeper patently considered it the ultimate demonstration of villainy.

Breadfruit and taro are kingly vegetables, the pair of them, though the former is patently a misnomer and more resembles a sweet potato than anything else, though it is not mealy like a sweet potato, nor is it so sweet.

Again she called after him, and now he turneda patently false look of surprise pasted onto his faceand retrod his escape-route to greet her.

The minister was patently rebellious and self-willed, a scorner of the yoke of Kirk and Word.

I had none, or that I wore some new and unassimilated shape, both were patently impossible.

He searched inside himself for a reservoir of strength, something that would shore him up and permit him to think, to analyze, to get a grip on this patently ungraspable situation.

And with them, here and there, undisguised by their decent American clothing, smaller in bulk and stature, weazened not alone by age but by the pinch of lean years and early hardship, were grandfathers and mothers who had patently first seen the light of day on old Irish soil.

Gould sat back in her chair and showed Andi a self-depreciating smile that seemed patently insincere.

Even assuming that their special malaises are wholly offset by the effects of alcoholism in the male, they suffer patently from the same adenoids, gastritis, cholelithiasis, nephritis, tuberculosis, carcinoma, arthritis and so on--in short, from the same disturbances of colloidal equilibrium that produce religion, delusions of grandeur, democracy, pyaemia, night sweats, the yearning to save humanity, and all other such distempers in men.