adverb
definition
(manner) In a frank, open or (too) honest manner.
example
He spoke frankly about the economy.
definition
(sentence adverb) In truth, to tell the truth.
Examples of frankly in a Sentence
Quite frankly, he was never sure he could trust her.
Frankly, I was shocked by Quinn's comments.
Frankly, I don't care what people think.
Pessimism, quite frankly, will get us all killed.
Frankly, I could care less who your bones belong to.
Frankly, we didn't need to talk about history.
I didn't know you and, frankly, you were getting rather personal.
He hadn't heard anyone speak so frankly to him since he was a child, and never on a topic so sensitive.
Frankly, I don't think either of us can stand up to this kind of pressure.
I do not think he would choose her for a wife, and frankly I do not wish it.
Ancient scepticism was frankly opposed to religious belief.
They feared Napoleon, recognized his strength and their own weakness, and frankly said so.
He acted with good sense and moderation, and, although by no means a believer in democratic ideas, he saw the necessity of satisfying public opinion and frankly gave his support to larger measures of reform.
Frankly, no one wants to do them, so the only way to get people to do them is to pay them.
We're off the front page recently and frankly, that pleases me to no end.
Howie doesn't have to work but he still suffers from head trauma, is pretty depressed and frankly, doesn't know what to do with himself.
His ideology, he frankly stated, formed "a part of zoology," or, as we should say, of biology.
Scholars were held in honour in those days by princes and people, and Ben-Sira frankly adduces this fact as one of the great advantages of the pursuit of wisdom.
Love is treated from a frankly carnal point of view.
Given the facts of recent history, claims to the contrary, frankly, seem arrogant.
Natasha gave herself up so fully and frankly to this new feeling that she did not try to hide the fact that she was no longer sad, but bright and cheerful.
If it is a frankly invasive epithelial cancer, it is more likely to be well or moderately differentiated.
It adds a look of solidarity to your squad and, frankly, makes it easier to tell who is who.
First of all, I've been there and done that and frankly, I don't want to go through it again.
As a rule, most forms of exercise are -- quite frankly -- not all that fun in and of themselves.
Frankly, I somewhat knew this myself because that's what I wore, but I didn't know there was a big market to sell that stuff.
Leg Avenue Sheer Thigh Hi with Back Seam and Bow which, quite frankly, are flat-out sexy, especially because of the seam.
But he could never pledge himself frankly in one sense or the other, and this vacillation prevented him from attaining any decisive results.
It was his frankly expressed wish to be nominated and elected president in 1904, and he was nominated unanimously by the Republican National Convention at Chicago, and was elected in November of that year by the largest popular majority ever given to any candidate in any presidential election.
He was also much about the court, and he admits very frankly that in his youth he led a life of pleasure, if not exactly of excess.
These inauspicious beginnings, indeed, set the whole tone of the war, which was frankly one of mutual extermination.
MacCullagh's hands the correct equations were derived from a single energy formula by the principle of least action; and while the validity of this dynamical method was maintained, it was frankly admitted that no mechanical analogy was forthcoming.
Thus in 1907 at the Centenary Conference in Shanghai, when many topics were discussed centring in the question of the native Chinese Church, a general declaration of faith and purpose was adopted, which, after setting out the things held in common, proceeded, " We frankly recognize that we differ as to methods of administration and of church government; that some among us differ from others as to the administration of baptism; and that there are some differences as to the statement of the doctrine of predestination, or the election of grsce.
African troops, entirely European and normally consisting of 606 officers time when it would have been impolitic to ask openly for more cavalry, they were little by little trained in real cavalry work, then combined in provisional regiments for disciplinary purposes and at last frankly classed as cavalry.
Of New Kingdom tales, the story of the Two Brothers is frankly in the simplest speech of everyday life, while others are more stilted.
He spoke his views frankly, but he disliked polemic; he found also more toleration than might have been expected, even after he became active in circulating Luther's books.
By the Treaty of Corbeil, with Louis IX., signed the r rth of May 1258, he frankly withdrew from conflict with the French king, and contented himself with the recognition of his position, and the surrender of antiquated French claims to the overlordship of Catalonia.
In the circumstances France should either have loyally accepted the decision of the majority of the concert, to which she had committed herself by signing the joint note of the 27th of July, or should have frankly stated her intention of taking up a position outside.
The lot falls on Jonah, who has been roughly awakened by the captain, and when questioned frankly owns that he is a Hebrew and a worshipper of the divine creator Yahweh, from whom he has sought to flee (as if He were only the god of Canaan).
Once Paul's apostolate - a personal one, parallel with the more collective apostolate of " the Twelve " - has proved itself by tokens of Divine approval, Peter and his colleagues frankly recognize the distinction of the two missions, and are anxious only to arrange that the two shall not fall apart by religiously and morally incompatible usages (Acts xv.).
Even in the Roman Catholic Church a large number of the leading divines were frankly deistic, nor were they for that reason regarded as irreligious.
Joinville is a better warrior than Louis, but, while the former frankly prays for his own safety, the latter only thinks of his army's when they have escaped from the hands of the aliens.
Gombe has now frankly accepted British rule.
After slavery had fallen Phillips associated himself freely with reformers occupied in other paths, herein separating himself from the other patrician of the movement, Edmund Quincy, who always frankly said that after slavery was abolished there was nothing else worth fighting for.
Thus, Hasdrubal's devotion and valour at the battle on the Metaurus are described in terms of eloquent praise; and even in Hannibal, the lifelong enemy of Rome, he frankly recognizes the great qualities that balanced his faults.
The legendary character of the earliest traditions he frankly admits.
But he made matters as easy as he could for his successors in the Monrad administration, and the ultimate catastrophe need not have been as serious as it was had his advice, frankly given, been intelligently followed.
His theological conception of God, at any rate, was not abstractly pantheistic, in spite of the abstractness of his language about " being," but frankly theistic and trinitarian.
This is not the place to discuss such political problems, but there is no question of free trade theory involved if the cost to the community of any such taxation is frankly acknowledged.
In regard to Ireland, he frankly admitted, Unionist though he was, the need for a change.