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frankly(dictionary)

frankly (iou)



frankly adverb. M16.
[from FRANK adjective1 + -LY2.]
Freely; without restriction or restraint. M16-E17.
Generously, bountifully; unconditionally, unreservedly. Now rare. M16.
C. Bront? The power of meriting the kindness..so frankly offered.
Without concealment or reserve; avowedly, openly, plainly. M16.
E. Bowen Quite frankly, the country gives me the creeps. J. Barth Wingate told me frankly I was a damn fool. A. T. Ellis The tourist haunts were..frankly bent on commerce and communication.
With freedom of artistic expression. M19.