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directly
adverb as in the shortest route
Strong match
adverb as in as soon as possible
adverb as in straightforwardly
Example Sentences
Out of 225 seats in the parliament, 196 MPs will be directly elected.
While he did not weigh-in on the race directly, there had been a concerted effort from the president-elect’s most vocal allies as well as favourable ‘Maga’ media outlets to get hard-line Trump loyalist Rick Scott elected.
Other nominees such as his proposed ambassador to the UN, Elise Stefanik, have directly accused China of election interference.
The former president even acknowledged that he had never directly apologized to Lewinsky.
The Johnson Amendment — named after sponsor Lyndon B. Johnson, who was a Democratic senator from Texas at the time — states that all nonprofit organizations are “absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for elective public office,” according to the Internal Revenue Service.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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