Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a candid manner; openly; frankly; without trick or disguise; ingenuously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a candid manner.
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- adverb in a
candid manner;frankly
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- adverb (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that
Etymologies
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Examples
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One thing, however, tell me candidly, is it from love of justice, or is it for your happiness you combat thus ardently for the integrity of this young man? '
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It seems like sage advice coming from the man who, as the game's title candidly suggests, is enduring the most preposterously perilous day in the history of all time.
Joystiq 2008
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a hundred thousand for the college — I ask you, candidly, is he worth it?
THEFT 2010
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“The reason we’re doing this, candidly, is we’re worried it’s going to pass,” Newsom said.
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“The reason we’re doing this, candidly, is we’re worried it’s going to pass,” Newsom said.
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As an incumbent in the General Assembly, it is easy to become lazy and rely on the institutional money because, candidly, that is easier to raise.
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I should like to think that I myself was to be the man to expound the fairy-kind candidly and methodically -- candidly, that is, without going to literature for my data, and with the notion definitely out of mind that the fairy
Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892
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The film portrays India candidly, which is what drew me in.
The Rebel Yell 2009
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Plenty of horrible, misguided policies have been 'candidly' and 'authentically' expressed/implemented by horrible would be and actual members of government.
Paul Has Already Hauled In Over $8 Million For The Quarter 2009
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There is nothing more dangerous than that impulsive intimacy strangers sometimes adopt when an atmosphere of mutual sympathy takes them by surprise, for it is akin to the false frankness friends affect when telling "candidly" one another's faults.
Four Weird Tales Algernon Blackwood 1910
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