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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bluntly
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 concert idea of mine was not a trap to get him into trouble.
put
▪ That is a statutory offence or, more bluntly put, a criminal offence.
▪ Put bluntly, while achievement has improved, there is no cause for mass rejoicing.
say
▪ She says bluntly what she thinks about landowners, the Royal Family, social injustice and access to the hills.
▪ Bogdanovich also says bluntly that living-room workouts are not his first choice.
▪ Mittleholzer says bluntly, ` the local papers were of no interest to me so far as my main objective was concerned.
tell
▪ It was a lame excuse, and I bluntly told him that he owed it to posterity to relate his story.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Several people bluntly questioned his ability to do the job.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A much more important factor is, to put it bluntly, racism.
▪ Food on some all-inclusive packages can, to put it bluntly, be mediocre.
▪ Put bluntly, while achievement has improved, there is no cause for mass rejoicing.
▪ She says bluntly what she thinks about landowners, the Royal Family, social injustice and access to the hills.
▪ The Crowland chronicler goes further and states bluntly that Bourgchier was compelled to play his part.
▪ To put it bluntly, nobody cares about strings of nucleic acids at all!
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bluntly

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bluntly

1550s, "stupidly," from blunt (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "directly" is from 1570s.

Wiktionary
bluntly

adv. In a blunt manner; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.

WordNet
bluntly

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]

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.