overtly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
7

Definition of overtly

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In an overt manner; publicly; openly.
    “Roumeli belonged to ELAS, and the commander who first took him into his particular band was proudly and overtly Communist.”
    “The arrival of Trump in the White House gave a new urgency to the idea that museums needed to decolonize” their collections, atone for their past elitism, and become overtly political institutions rather than mere warehouses of valuable objects.”
    “An outright far-right victory in the two-round poll, which commences on 30 June, could render Macron a lame duck, doomed to cohabit” with an overtly xenophobic, Islamophobic, authoritarian and illiberal government led, prospectively, by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s young protege”
    “The message from this week’s election – and from the angry, at times overtly sexist and authoritarian rhetoric that Mr. Trump used on the campaign trail – is that America is a deeply, angrily, unstably divided country.”

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Etymology

From overt + -ly.

Hooks

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