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Meaning plainly meaning

What does plainly mean?

plainly

(= obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plain) 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 (= simply) in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment she was dressed plainly they lived very simply

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Simple sentences

They were plainly dressed.
He couldn't have put it more plainly.
Stop beating around the bush and tell me plainly what you want from me.
I'm a plain dealer, I look on life plainly, I think plainly, I speak plainly.

Movie subtitles

Of all the blatant things i ever heard said. well, as we are speaking plainly.
Yes. I remember it as plainly as if it was yesterday. though I was only a little girl at the time.
I saw Morlant as plainly as I see you.
I saw that plainly enough.
Today, I'm going to put it to the world plainly.
Why keep us waiting? Speak plainly!
You're inferring rather plainly that Joyce is losing her mind.
I'm saying plainly, the Yankees are better equipped than we.
Leslie, I shall have to talk very plainly to you.
You make me feel certain, the way my proposal is sanctioned by the authority of your parents, you would plainly say yes!
As a matter of fact, he's told me so rather plainly.
Bright horizontal beam plainly visible from the air.
By faith and honour, our madams mock at us and plainly say our mettle is bred out and they will give their bodies to the lust of English youth, to new-store France with bastard warriors.
That's funny. I can hear you plainly.
I must speak plainly, Agnes.
You're making it very difficult for me. It's best I speak plainly.
Mrs. Shackleford, I feel you're implying all sorts of things. Would you mind speaking quite plainly?
Virgil, will you say that again, please, slowly and plainly and simply?
The others without uniform don't show his face so plainly.
Please say what you have to say, plainly and distinctly, and then let me take my nap.
More plainly and more distinctly?
As you can plainly see there are no secret pockets and no hidden springs.
Now that I've had time to study it, I can plainly see it's a one-man job.
May I speak plainly?
Yes, do. Go ahead, as plainly as you want to.
Speak plainly.
I should hint at things. Without stating them plainly, insinuate what can neither be proved or disproved.
A few weeks after your other marriage? Why didn't you tell her plainly?
By the way, darling, here are the sleeping pills and the vitamins. both plainly marked.
Plainly and unmistakably common from her painted toenails to the top of her bleached head.
This is plainly a maneuver for better terms.
Are you sure? Did you see it plainly?
As you can plainly see, it was bloody awful!

News and current affairs

Others, such as Kazakhstan's Nursultan Nazarbayev (popular with Western media when he first came on the scene) plainly has not.
This is what appeared to happen in the last Indian election, and the election in the United States of President Barack Obama was also plainly a supremely rational moment.
We have thousands of documents but a failure to speak plainly to one other.
Europe is plainly in decline, politically and culturally, though most Europeans, blinded by their high living standards and the pretensions of their impotent statesmen, are happy to dress this up as progress.
Universities perform their natural economic function when academics speak and write plainly, demystify jargon, present their ideas in alternative media and stress applications to domains that do not concern the academics themselves.
The analysis presented by Gita Gopinath, which establishes a connection between the price pass-through to prices from exchange-rate changes and the currency in which trade is invoiced, speaks plainly to this issue.
This is plainly wrong.
Another - plainly linked - is Muslim-majority countries' efforts to define the relationship between religion and politics.
After all, is it not premature - if not plainly arrogant- to claim that all this evidence collected over many centuries and across numerous countries has lost any meaning for the present and the future?
But their belief can suddenly be disrupted if plainly visible events contradict it.
One consequence of this is that Ukrainians are often shy about asserting Ukraine's independent interests plainly - exemplified by Ukraine's acceptance of a deal that leaves its energy future so insecure.
Now that Japan has withdrawn its small contingent of troops, perhaps Bush will speak plainly to Abe.
Plainly, by itself the law may not be able to offer the right solution in such a complex and dangerous situation.
When they are plainly wrong, why let them off the hook?
Mao's speech on the establishment of the People's Republic plainly expressed the nationalist agenda behind it.
But the difference between these countries and their southern counterparts in terms of economic performance, social climate, and political culture are plainly visible.
I see this very plainly spending so much time in Jerusalem, where - East and West - there is an emphatic increase in religiosity.
Plainly, that was not enough to deter those who sought an occasion to attack the US Consulate in Benghazi.
This is plainly wrong. Olmert's government has serious problems, but they are not the reason that the situation between Israel and Iran is coming to a head.
Germany's actions throughout the crisis have been plainly contradictory.
Recent attempts to remedy this under the Capital Requirements Directive have been disappointing, even though it was plainly the best that could be achieved politically given EU countries' differing views on prudential supervision.
But the report plainly understated the degree of public support for change.
According to this plainly naive approach, the negotiation process operates according to its own embedded logic, independent of considerations of power, coercion, and leverage.

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