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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
honestly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
honestly believe
▪ Did you honestly believe that I’d be stupid enough to do that?
honestly expect (=really expect)
▪ Do you honestly expect me to look after the kids while you go on holiday?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
believe
▪ But I honestly believe she is dead.
▪ I honestly believe that some of these people really liked us.
▪ I honestly believe she feeds herself to it whenever it demands.
▪ I honestly believe that the majority of them were disposed toward peace.
▪ She says what she honestly believes in a brave, even foolhardy manner.
▪ If you can actually see yourself succeeding and honestly believe that you can succeed, then you will.
▪ I honestly believe there can't be a paper in the world with so much strength in depth photographically.
▪ I honestly believe that's what he thought.
say
▪ I can honestly say it was the greatest thrill I have ever experienced.
▪ And having hung around the set for a while, I can honestly say Tea has a lot of male appeal.
▪ Q My son is nine and I can honestly say I can't do a thing with him.
▪ I can honestly say I was not expecting it.
▪ Can he honestly say it now?
▪ Who can honestly say that Essex man was completely misguided?
▪ And can you honestly say you are unaffected?
▪ So I can honestly say that I've never known anyone who's ever played for Leeds.
think
▪ I honestly thought he would have forgotten the Marquis of Granby incident.
▪ Do you honestly think your man got shot yesterday in Braintree because the Attorney General was busy with something else?
▪ That's the only time I honestly thought I was going to die.
▪ But she honestly thinks that no one will pay any attention to her after it Is over.
▪ And do you honestly think that I normally allow females to wallop me across the face?
▪ He honestly thought it was all right.
▪ I honestly thought they were going to win.
▪ He honestly thought that it would do so.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Honestly, it makes no difference to me where we have the wedding.
Honestly, they didn't hear that from me.
▪ He needs to talk honestly with Billie.
▪ I honestly don't know.
▪ I honestly don't think we'll be in court all day tomorrow.
▪ I can't believe people honestly teased you about that.
▪ I was going to give you it back, honestly.
▪ Oh honestly! I don't know why I even bother.
▪ Please fill out the questionnaire as honestly as possible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But then, she admitted honestly, so could she!
▪ Dorothy and I love the city, although our children have quite honestly had some problems.
▪ He honestly thought it was all right.
▪ How could she honestly make this pigheaded man see sense?
▪ I honestly can't think of anything we wanted that this holiday didn't provide.
▪ I don't honestly know why he agreed to do the film, except that all he wanted was a fifteen-minute death scene.
▪ I knew it was wrong but I honestly could not make myself say yes to that man.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Honestly

Honestly \Hon"est*ly\, adv.

  1. Honorably; becomingly; decently. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

  2. In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly. --Shak. To come honestly by.

    1. To get honestly.

    2. A circumlocution for to inherit; as, to come honestly by a feature, a mental trait, a peculiarity.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
honestly

mid-14c., from honest + -ly (2). As an intensifier or exclamation, from 1898.

Wiktionary
honestly

adv. 1 (context manner English) In an honest manner. 2 (context speech act English) frankly. interj. (non-gloss definition: Used to express exasperation, dismay, etc.)

WordNet
honestly
  1. adv. (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that; "honestly, I don't believe it"; "candidly, I think she doesn't have a conscience"; "frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" [syn: candidly, frankly]

  2. in an honest manner; "in he can't get it honestly, he is willing to steal it"; "was known for dealing aboveboard in everything" [syn: aboveboard] [ant: dishonestly]

Wikipedia
Honestly (Cartel song)

"Honestly" is the first single from the American pop punk group Cartel, taken from their debut album, Chroma. The single was released in 2006. The song was first featured on MTV Discover and Download throughout the summer months in the U.S. in 2006. The song was featured on the soundtrack for the film John Tucker Must Die. On December 21, 2006, the song was performed live on Total Request Live.

The song was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2015.

Honestly (Zwan song)

"Honestly" is a song by American alternative rock group Zwan. It was the first single from their album, Mary Star of the Sea. The song was written by Billy Corgan.

The B-side " The Number of the Beast" was used in the opening credits of the 2002 film Spun by director Jonas Åkerlund.

Honestly (Stryper song)

"Honestly" is a power ballad by the American Christian metal band Stryper. The song was the band's fifth single and their highest charting on the Billboard Hot 100. "Honestly" became one of the most requested songs on MTV. "Honestly" is one of Stryper's best-known songs, peaking at No. 23 on the Hot 100. It was Stryper's only Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

Honestly (Harem Scarem song)

"Honestly" is a single released in 1992 by Canadian glam metal band Harem Scarem. The song appears on their 1991 self-titled debut album. The song charted at #68 on the Canadian singles chart and also had a music video shot for it. The music video starred American actor Judge Reinhold as the male love interest.

Honestly (Hot Chelle Rae song)

"Honestly" is a song by American pop rock band Hot Chelle Rae. It was released as the third single from their second album Whatever on March 22, 2012. The song was written by Ryan Follese, Nash Overstreet, Ian Keaggy, C. Kelly, Sam Hollander, Dave Katz and produced by S*A*M and Sluggo, Chad Royce, and Scott Mann.

Honestly

Honestly may refer to:

  • "Honestly" (Cartel song)
  • "Honestly" (Daniel Schuhmacher song)
  • "Honestly" (Harem Scarem song)
  • "Honestly" (Hot Chelle Rae song)
  • "Honestly" (Stryper song)
  • "Honestly" (Zwan song)
  • Honestly (album), 2001 album by Joey Yung
Honestly (Daniel Schuhmacher song)

"Honestly" is a song by German recording artist Daniel Schuhmacher. It was written by Alex Christensen and Peter Könemann for his second studio album, Nothing to Lose (2010), while production on the track was helmed by the former. Released as the album's lead single, it reached number 22 on the German Singles Chart.

Usage examples of "honestly".

Doctors, Masters, or Bedels, shall within a month from the commencement of such collection, take care that the members of their societies contribute, and send in the names of those who fail to do so to the Chancellor under a penalty of twenty shillings: and every Doctor or Master shall pay the Bedel honestly within a month from the commencement of the collection.

Had he not in his bureau a manuscript treatise on the relations of art and morals which, when he re-read it, astounded him by its acumen and wit, and a manuscript poem on the doings of Cardinal Beatoun which he could not honestly deem inferior to the belauded verse of Mr Walter Scott!

When I note how few Catholics are engaged in honestly tilling the honest soil, and how many Catholics are engaged in the liquor traffic, I cannot talk buncombe to anybody.

Looking at the awesome spectacle of Wulfgar, Bungo honestly wondered if he could have won this match even in his healthier youth.

When they shall have ceased, it will, we think, be seen, whatever may have been the fortunes of other nations, that it is not the United States that will have come out of them with its precious Constitution altered or its honestly obtained dominion in any degree abridged.

Quite honestly, I have been relieved at the level of composure Citrine has maintained thus far.

When it was all over, it became us both, of course, to be, or at least to appear to be, surprised at what had taken place, and I could not honestly hesitate to assure the poor countess that it was only the first token of a constant and true love.

Although the marquis was somewhat inclined to be jealous, he could not possibly object to his wife enjoying a revenue of eighteen hundred francs a month, and that without the least scandal, for everything was done in public, and the game was honestly conducted.

But in this matter Grimani did not act honestly, for the patrimony was only settled thirteen years afterwards, and even then only in a fictitious manner.

We got it back, and you saw what nearly happened to us, and, I honestly believe, would have happened had not Dick discarded his coat, with the doubloon in the pocket, at the last minute.

I honestly dreaded the coming discussions which were to link me with such alien and forbidden worlds.

Bearing in mind the prevalence of this kind of exegesis among the Jews, and remembering also that they possessed in the times of Jesus a vast body of oral law, to which they attributed as great authority as to the written, there are two possible ways of honestly meeting the difficulty before us.

But in defence of it I can honestly say that it is at least no more flagrant than the speculations on this subject that have become enshrined in history as facts.

Trust that man to get the fots, it has to be a Talent, no man has that much luck come honestly.

As regards age, I am no spring chicken, Kogh, and I cannot say that I honestly wish to undergo a carriage and birthing, especially not a first one, at my age.