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In a clear manner
Answer for the clue "In a clear manner ", 7 letters:
plainly
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Word definitions for plainly in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plainly \Plain"ly\, adv. In a plain manner; clearly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from plain (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "simply, frugally" is from 1560s.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES bluntly/crudely/plainly (= in a direct way that may offend people ) ▪ I would put it more bluntly. I think you are wallowing in self-pity. clearly/plainly visible ▪ The fracture was clearly visible on the X-ray. COLLOCATIONS ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 In a plain manner; simply; basically. 2 obviously; clearly.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently ...
Usage examples of plainly.
The apostolical writers do not speak of salvation by the blood of Christ any more plainly than they do of salvation by the name of Christ, salvation by grace, and salvation by faith.
The light had a dull golden cast and a grainy quality, as if mixed in with particles of gloom, and the smell, while it plainly was that of a cleaning agent, did not have the astringency of an industrial cleaner.
The servant brought in the soup, and then asked me very plainly to give her some money if I wanted any wine, as her master and mistress only drank beer.
He was plainly clad, in burnished helmet and breastplate, his gray silk coat alone marking him out from the eighty-one Saldaean lancers arrayed around the hilltop.
She caught Burr watching her with a glint of mockery in his eyes that said her thoughts were plainly written on her face.
Blanche, entreating their mercy, immediately gave up the miniature, while another of the ruffians fiercely interrogated her, concerning what she had overheard of their conversation, when, her confusion and terror too plainly telling what her tongue feared to confess, the ruffians looked expressively upon one another, and two of them withdrew to a remote part of the room, as if to consult further.
She was dressed very plainly, in the rough brown homespun she wore on the Ridge, but the clothes were fresh and clean.
After that, I can plainly see at least six or eight head of horseflesh in that corral behind you.
Therefore it is plainly a heresy condemned long since by the Church to say that in Christ there are two hypostases, or two supposita, or that the union did not take place in the hypostasis or suppositum.
The logothete of the treasury plainly had never imagined, let alone been subjected to, singing like this.
The tracing was not much magnified, and as the lines were plainly zigzag, the cotyledons must have moved a little laterally, that is, they must have circumnutated.
Having learned plainly how affairs stood, Merlin set his own plans accordingly.
The fourth was probably a Chocoes girl while the last two were plainly mestizas of mixed Euro and Indian blood.
But meteorology, which must have been a mere hobby with Basil some years ago, was now plainly in another category.
Brabant whose wife was very ill, and he supposing that she was about to die, after many remonstrances and exhortations for the salvation of her soul, asked her pardon, and she pardoned him all his misdeeds, excepting that he had not worked her as much as he ought to have done--as will appear more plainly in the said story.