CANDIDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does candidly mean? 

• CANDIDLY (adverb)
  The adverb CANDIDLY has 1 sense:

1. (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that

  Familiarity information: CANDIDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANDIDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that

Synonyms:

candidly; frankly; honestly

Context example:

frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn

Domain usage:

intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)

Pertainym:

candid (characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion)

 Context examples 

Candidly, I envy you your health.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Let me deal so candidly with the reader as to confess that there was yet a much stronger motive for the freedom I took in my representation of things.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You know I candidly told you I should form my own opinion; and I am happy to say that I am extremely pleased with him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I compared her in my mind with Dora, with considerable inward satisfaction; but I candidly admitted to myself that she seemed to be an excellent kind of girl for Traddles, too.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Fanny was the only one of the party who found anything to dislike; but since the day at Sotherton, she could never see Mr. Crawford with either sister without observation, and seldom without wonder or censure; and had her confidence in her own judgment been equal to her exercise of it in every other respect, had she been sure that she was seeing clearly, and judging candidly, she would probably have made some important communications to her usual confidant.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Why they WERE different, Robert exclaimed to her himself in the course of a quarter of an hour's conversation; for, talking of his brother, and lamenting the extreme GAUCHERIE which he really believed kept him from mixing in proper society, he candidly and generously attributed it much less to any natural deficiency, than to the misfortune of a private education; while he himself, though probably without any particular, any material superiority by nature, merely from the advantage of a public school, was as well fitted to mix in the world as any other man.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Do you think I can't understand you as well as if I had seen you, pursued my aunt, now that I DO see and hear you—which, I tell you candidly, is anything but a pleasure to me?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)