openly

ADVERB

honestly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

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

WEAK

aboveboard artlessly frankly in broad daylight 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

Example Sentences

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Openly accessible genome data and related research will also accelerate development in the field, generating new knowledge, practical applications and innovations.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

Openly sharing our own struggles gives others the chance to support us and may make it easier for them to ask for support in return.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2023

Please credit Openly, the LGBTQ+ news website from the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters.

From Reuters • Aug. 21, 2023

Openly talking about periods hasn’t always been the norm—not at press conferences, and definitely not in the lab.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2023

Openly, Bobby disparaged how he’d performed, but the Soviet chess establishment was dazzled by how he managed to place so high under such arduous conditions.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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