OPENLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does openly mean? 

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

1. in an open way

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPENLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an open way

Context example:

he openly flaunted his affection for his sister

Pertainym:

open (affording free passage or access)

 Context examples 

I displayed it openly during our conversation, but he took no notice of it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

THEN, if I had not been bound to silence, perhaps nothing could have kept me entirely—not even what I owed to my dearest friends—from openly shewing that I was VERY unhappy.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If you are not sure you want to take that step, then voice your hesitation openly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Had you not been surrounded by other friends, I might have been tempted to introduce a subject, to ask questions, to speak more openly than might have been strictly correct.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There was no resisting them, and we wept openly.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

One day they openly sicked the dogs on him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I would relate, as plainly and as openly as possible, all that has taken place; and I would ask their permission to visit sometimes, at their house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And sitting down by her, he was at great pains to overcome her shame in being so surprised, and persuade her to speak openly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The police have openly confessed that they can at present make nothing of it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She blushed at the very idea, and thought it would be better to speak openly to her aunt than to run such a risk.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)