Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb In a frank manner; candidly.
- adverb In truth; honestly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a frank or unreserved manner; without reserve or disguise; candidly: as, to confess one's faults frankly.
- Freely; without hindrance or restraint; willingly.
- Synonyms see
frank , adjective
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a frank manner; freely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb manner in a
frank ,open or (too)honest manner. - adverb speech act
In truth ,to tell the truth .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that
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Examples
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This term frankly is the code for Arabs and Muslims and if you are the average and even not so average American in the United States this is what you think, perceive and for many believe.
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After much backing and filling, the king, on December 23, 1675, issued a proclamation which in its title frankly stated its object -- "for the suppression of coffee houses."
All About Coffee 1909
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This American, frankly, is tired of hearing about such false choices from the other side, who's only mission seems to be regaining power.
Shelby on Wall Street reform: 'We need to get this right' 2010
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Beyond the zoom, the S8000 has a nice wide lens (which frankly is more important than a big zoom, in my opinion -- especially for group shots) and I left it on wide most of the time.
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There will be some minds you can never change, and it frankly is not your job to go around explaining what your book really meant.
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Somehow he seemed to forget about the average American who frankly is tired of his misleading rhetoric.
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Just wouldn't expect much new, feature-wise ... which, frankly, is OK by me, since the feature expansion in the last few years hasn't been anything all that interesting or helpful, anyway.
January 6th, 2009 archmage 2009
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Apparently if I whine enough - and can endure sufficient beatings with a rubber hose - I get steak, cheese, and candy, which, frankly, is a pretty sweet meal no matter where you might be.
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The fact that he used cash, frankly, is in Africa, completely and utterly —
Think Progress » The ‘facts’ of the Christmas Day plot are ‘clear’ — to everyone except John McCain. 2010
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I think what he ought to do frankly is send a mother of a fallen American soldier to accept the prize on behalf of the U.S. military and frankly to send the message to remind the Nobel committee that each one of them sleeps soundly at night because the U.S. military is the greatest peacekeeping force in the world today.
Although the Nobel thing has pretty much crested by now… - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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