Crossword clues for frankly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frankly \Frank"ly\, adv. In a frank manner; freely.
Very frankly he confessed his treasons.
--Shak.
Syn: Openly; ingenuously; plainly; unreservedly; undisguisedly; sincerely; candidly; artlessly; freely; readily; unhesitatingly; liberally; willingly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (lb en manner) In a frank, open or (too) honest manner. 2 (lb en speech act) in truth, to tell the truth.
WordNet
Usage examples of "frankly".
Although this prince of navigators was in many instances assisted by interpreters in the prosecution of his researches, he still frankly acknowledges that he was at a loss to obtain anything like a clear insight into the puzzling arcana of their faith.
From its present vantage, it shone down its beneficent warmth and golden rays upon the plain and the frankly awestricken spectators.
Frankly, I think we could do a damn good job, especially if we handled it through Benthic Marine.
Frankly, I could do without the hassle of charging you, Miss Brannigan, but you make it very tempting.
It is frankly a ridiculous sight, like a gaudy Chaucerian pilgrimage, but with Crocker the only tale-teller.
Fond of fine types, garments, draperies, colors, he was always seeking the sparkling rather than the true, and forcing artificial effects for the sake of startling one rather than stating facts simply and frankly.
Such prejudiced and frankly Neanderthal attitudes towards the problem of drug abuse ensure that the fight against drugs and drug-based crime will never be won.
Ringfounder really wants to make sergeant and frankly I overheard them, but I doubt if the printing dwarfs would mention it to the editor.
Sharpe, and, quite frankly, most episc ipal palaces are inhabited by very mediocre men.
And I say here to you, if any one expects of me--in case of my election--that I will do anything not signified by our Republican platform and my answers here to-day, I tell you very frankly that person will be deceived.
The experiments upon his patients were frankly reported by himself, and were published in his well-known work on Therapeutics.
The Genoese would then have followed his example, but the baron held his arm, while he turned an inquiring eye towards his daughter, as if commanding her to deal more frankly with him.
The theater was about two-thirds full and everybody, Suzi said, knew the Hearts were there within seconds of their appearance, stealing glances at them, or frankly staring if they were in a strategic position.
Custom or not, nature or not, she concluded that the time had come when she must speak frankly with this littermate of hers, could she get to him privately.
Today the Mandaean religion is, frankly, a hopelessly confused hotchpotch: various fragments of Old Testament Judaism, heretical Gnostic forms of Christianity and Iranian dualist beliefs are all mixed into their cosmology and theology.