frankly

Adverb

Meaning

In a frank manner; freely.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

candidly honestly freely openly willingly plainly sincerely bluntly truthfully artlessly unreservedly frank open directly actually
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Antonyms

crescent serpentine between curly attractive corrupt
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Phrases with the word

speaking frankly speak frankly talk frankly express frankly speak quite frankly

Examples

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. Joseph Addison

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. Walter Pater

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. Jimmy Carter

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it. Jim Carrey

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad. Ernest Hemingway

I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of poliomyelitis and I hope that future developments will prove me wrong... No means of controlling poliomyelitis is at present visible. Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Close letter words and terms

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