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bluntly
Word definitions for bluntly in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In a blunt manner; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bluntly \Blunt"ly\, adv. In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility. Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. --Jeffrey.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in a blunt direct manner; "he spoke bluntly"; "he stated his opinion flat-out"; "he was criticized roundly" [syn: bluffly , brusquely , flat out , roundly ]
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. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB ask ▪ Yevtushenko asked bluntly whether this ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "stupidly," from blunt (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "directly" is from 1570s.
Usage examples of bluntly.
Myles, bluntly, vexed that the boy did not take the disgrace of his beating more to heart.
Two fierce old women supervised the process, discussing them as bluntly as if they were newly acquired donkeys.
I tried not to think of it myself, but could not help now and then searching his bluntly amiable features for any trace that might reveal his true paternity.
I asked bluntly, as we made our way across the ragged cornfield that lay before the house.
Widmore, after bidding him a bluff good-morning, told him bluntly that she was sorry his suit had not prospered.
Elysia stared at him, astonished to hear him speak so bluntly of his master.
As long as he could whisper, he would go on as he had begun, bluntly refusing to meet his creator with the admission that the creation had taught him nothing except that the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle might for convenience be taken as equal to something else.
She had told Marghe, bluntly, that a SEC rep could be useful for long-term relations with the natives.
How could he remain angry at a girl who spoke so bluntly, who played no simpering games with him?
He spoke to the great underman as he would have spoken to another Mister and Owner back home, friendily but bluntly.
In a letter to Smith, telling him the news, Adams made clear what an embarrassment the whole business had been for him, and warned Smith bluntly that, if unchecked, his pride and extravagances would bring ruin.
Asked Andi bluntly, not clarifying whether it was Feight or the roses she asked about.
The chief of the volunteer fire department said bluntly that his men should not have to bail out Bonita Vista because of their shortsightedness and stupidity but that they would have to, since a blaze would endanger the town and surrounding countryside.
In the centre there is a group of elongated, cylindrical cells of unequal lengths, bluntly pointed at their upper ends, truncated or rounded at their lower ends, closely pressed together, and remarkable from being surrounded by a spiral line, which can be separated as a distinct fibre.
His ringed cockhead now pressed bluntly at her anus, its pressure slow, steady, insistent.