adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bluntly/crudely/plainly (= in a direct way that may offend people )
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I would put it more bluntly. I think you are wallowing in self-pity.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
ask
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Yevtushenko asked bluntly whether this concert idea of mine was not a trap to get him into trouble.
put
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That is a statutory offence or, more bluntly put , a criminal offence.
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Put bluntly , while achievement has improved, there is no cause for mass rejoicing.
say
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She says bluntly what she thinks about landowners, the Royal Family, social injustice and access to the hills.
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Bogdanovich also says bluntly that living-room workouts are not his first choice.
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Mittleholzer says bluntly , ` the local papers were of no interest to me so far as my main objective was concerned.
tell
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It was a lame excuse, and I bluntly told him that he owed it to posterity to relate his story.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Several people bluntly questioned his ability to do the job.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A much more important factor is, to put it bluntly , racism.
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Food on some all-inclusive packages can, to put it bluntly , be mediocre.
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Put bluntly , while achievement has improved, there is no cause for mass rejoicing.
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She says bluntly what she thinks about landowners, the Royal Family, social injustice and access to the hills.
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The Crowland chronicler goes further and states bluntly that Bourgchier was compelled to play his part.
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To put it bluntly , nobody cares about strings of nucleic acids at all!