Overtly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Overtly is an adverb meaning In an overt manner; publicly; openly.
Meaning
In an overt manner; publicly; openly.
Example Sentences
Roumeli belonged to ELAS, and the commander who first took him into his particular band was proudly and overtly Communist.
The message from this week’s election – and from the angry, at times overtly sexist and authoritarian rhetoric that Mr. Trump used on the campaign trail – is that America is a deeply, angrily, unstably divided country.
The arrival of Trump in the White House gave a new urgency to the idea that museums needed to decolonize” their collections, atone for their past elitism, and become overtly political institutions rather than mere warehouses of valuable objects.
An outright far-right victory in the two-round poll, which commences on 30 June, could render Macron a lame duck, doomed to cohabit” with an overtly xenophobic, Islamophobic, authoritarian and illiberal government led, prospectively, by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s young protege
Antonyms for overtly
Common opposites include covertly.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include openly, publicly, clearly, obviously, manifestly, patently.
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