bluntly

Example Sentences

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High above them is New York’s only revolving restaurant, bluntly named The View, perhaps because it is improbably located atop the 1980s-era Marriott Marquis Hotel.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Sherman, who has been in Congress since 1997, dismissed the generational-change argument bluntly.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Torres captured the broader institutional despair bluntly when he admitted he lacked confidence in regulators but felt there was “no choice but to agitate for accountability.”

From Salon • May 9, 2026

Outside, Ahmed, a voter originally from Iraq, put it more bluntly: “Twenty years ago, this didn’t exist,” he told me.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026

One bluntly told Scruggs, “I don’t know how any of us are going to make it back.”

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge