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bluntly

[bluhnt-lee] / ˈblʌnt li /


ADVERB
obtrusively
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One NOS member put it more bluntly in a TV documentary five years later: "We were sticking two fingers up to normal, middle-class church ways of behaviour."

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Michael Hill, a professor of chemistry at Occidental College, puts it more bluntly: "LASIK is just a fancy way of doing traditional surgery. It's still carving tissue -- it's just carving with a laser."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

My husband thinks I’ve been taken advantage of, though he wouldn’t put it that bluntly.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

She asks how I’m enjoying my 20s, to which I bluntly reply, “It’s a nightmare.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

But the infuriated Strauss dismissed Lawrence’s plea of illness and delivered a vicious tongue-lashing, capping it bluntly with an accusation of cowardice.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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