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bluntly

[bluhnt-lee] / ˈblʌnt li /


ADVERB
obtrusively
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While Mr. Conlon insists that their mission is “prepolitical,” Mr. Blackwood speaks bluntly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“Who is Dave to me? He’s a guy,” Goblikon said bluntly, with nothing else to add about the writer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

One NOS member put it more bluntly in a TV documentary five years later: "We were sticking two fingers up to normal, middle-class church ways of behaviour."

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Michael Hill, a professor of chemistry at Occidental College, puts it more bluntly: "LASIK is just a fancy way of doing traditional surgery. It's still carving tissue -- it's just carving with a laser."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

“My cat died,” I say bluntly, my eyes stinging at my own words.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass


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