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in broad daylight

ADVERB

openly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

blatantly brazenly candidly flagrantly forthrightly fully honestly plainly publicly readily simply unabashedly unashamedly willingly

WEAK

aboveboard artlessly frankly in full view in public in the open ingenuously naively naturally shamelessly straight under one's nose unhesitatingly unreservedly wantonly warts and all without pretense without reserve

Antonyms

STRONGEST

incompletely

WEAK

secretly shamefully

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When it dawned on the teacher what was happening in broad daylight and in front of other motorists and pedestrians, her initial feeling was of disbelief.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

General Dan Caine -- the top US military officer, who spoke alongside Trump -- said these forces "audaciously penetrated enemy territory in broad daylight to find, fix and recover" the pilot.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

“If this is what they’re doing in broad daylight, it’s scary to think what they could do at nighttime.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

So he did, in broad daylight, one afternoon in 1983—went right across the Rio Grande, the Rio Bravo del Norte, as they called it in Chihuahua.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026

Bananas were so abundant around the village people stole them off each other’s trees in broad daylight.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

in broad daylight

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