in public

ADVERB

openly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

blatantly brazenly candidly flagrantly forthrightly fully honestly plainly publicly readily simply unabashedly unashamedly willingly

WEAK

aboveboard artlessly frankly in broad daylight in full view in the open ingenuously naively naturally shamelessly straight under one's nose unhesitatingly unreservedly wantonly warts and all without pretense without reserve

Antonyms

STRONGEST

incompletely

WEAK

secretly shamefully

Example Sentences

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Mr. Cox’s pleas for civility in public discourse have been welcome.

From The Wall Street Journal

As with so many things in public markets today, much of the action revolves around a private company, OpenAI.

From Barron's

I promptly got a private message from a source who had lost his house: “I’m surprised he’d wear that shirt in public in the Palisades.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Pew is a highly influential think tank specializing in public opinion polling and demographic research, so how it chooses to categorize the people it surveys can be highly consequential.

From Salon

“It shocked me at first when he took off,” says his daughter, Dayla, whose regular appearances in the videos now get her recognized in public.

From The Wall Street Journal

in public

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