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overtly

[ oh-vurt-lee, oh-vurt-lee ]

adverb

  1. openly; publicly.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of overtly1

Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325; overt, -ly
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Morgan has "reserved" her position on the cuts to welfare so far, and has not overtly criticised the plans.

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Last year an inquest found the atrocity, in Kingsmills, was an overtly sectarian attack mounted by the IRA.

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I’m partial to the former, in part because it features the only overtly political character Wodehouse ever devised.

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She was also the only European leader to attend the US president's inauguration in January, and has steered clear of overtly criticising the work of his administration since.

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Throughout the 1920s, most of Germany's wealthy industrialists preferred to support explicitly business-friendly conservative parties, who offered a less overtly destabilizing vision for the nation's future.

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