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Synonyms for plainly
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Princeton's WordNet
obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plainadverb
unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
"the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn"
Synonyms:
plain, ostensibly, manifestly, patently, simply, seemingly, on the face of it, evidently, apparently, obviouslyplainly, simplyadverb
in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment
"she was dressed plainly"; "they lived very simply"
Synonyms:
just, plain, but, manifestly, simply, patently, evidently, apparently, obviously, only, merely
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#43 | but | |
#65 | only | |
#109 | just | |
#907 | clear | |
#1305 | simply | |
#2463 | clearly | |
#3226 | plain | |
#4395 | apparently | |
#4417 | obviously | |
#5564 | merely | |
#12018 | seemingly | |
#13398 | frankly | |
#14213 | openly | |
#17985 | evidently | |
#22432 | plainly | |
#34143 | ostensibly | |
#44224 | patently | |
#50596 | manifestly | |
#51264 | bluntly |
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Plainly there are questions to be asked when someone with such a history of infatuation with extremism, violent crime and mental instability should be in possession of a gun license, we have very tough gun laws and I guess we can be pleased that he didn't have a more potent weapon at his disposal. But why did he have a gun license in the first place?
I think one of the things that's so puzzling to us about why he does not get punished for making these statements is, that a lot of people hear it and they feel like, yeah he's working through the problem in front of us, but they think he's talking plainly, because he doesn't have the political pat answer for everything they give him a lot of forgiveness.
This is plainly a policy directed at Petrobras, that will have an indirect positive impact on the sugar sector.
Speak, speak, speak plainly! i support the proposal about the entry of the Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples' Republics into the Russian Federation.
It is a transparent attempt to hide the fact that the President Barack Obama administration’s interagency process for closing Guantanamo is an incoherent mess, and it is plainly intended to conceal the inconsistency between the administration’s stated intention to close Guantanamo and the steps taken to transfer cleared men.
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