adverb
definition
(manner) In an honest manner.
example
He answered the questions honestly.
definition
Frankly, to be honest.
example
Honestly, I didn't believe a word she said.
interjection
definition
Used to express exasperation, dismay, etc.
example
Honestly! I want to finish this work and you keep interrupting.
Examples of honestly in a Sentence
Honestly, I don't know whether I can or not.
No. I honestly don't think that's possible but he is seeing something.
I honestly don't know.
Do you honestly think there is any way we could have a future?
You can honestly say they are anonymous.
Honestly, I didn't have anything to do with that.
Honestly, if we all spoke the same language today, would you want to change that?
Do you honestly think you can keep a secret that's a major part of your life from someone who's sharing a bed with you?
If he's honestly interested in me, he can come courting the proper way.
I honestly don't know, but by the sound of her voice, she's very upset.
I had honestly never even dared hope to win.
These efforts in the two hemispheres are based on the idea that international differences can be adjusted without war, where the parties are honestly aggrieved.
When I was your age, I didn't think I was very smart, but I had a father who honestly thought I was the greatest, smartest, nicest kid alive.
I am honestly amazed that more artists don't use between song banter to talk about who they want to " fook " .
Until a person is willing to honestly face his or her addiction and come clean, it will be difficult to recover.
I think we got the best week of snow all season (not gloating, honestly ).
I honestly do n't think people realize how huge the ramifications of these decisions have become in rugby.
You're already on the right track by keeping her brushed, but I honestly suspect there's an underlying cause to her current condition.
I honestly enjoy helping women look as beautiful as they feel.
Ramsey is one of the few people in the United States who can honestly say they've experienced life from all sides of the financial spectrum.
Do you honestly find that Tide is the only product that cleans your clothes?
Teresa Giudice comes by her Italian - and Jersey - roots honestly.
If you've not seen a single episode of Firefly, honestly - you're missing out, but not to worry because Whedon has written Serenity to give enough of the show's background for non-fans to be able to follow his story.
However, they do provide tools and guides to help people honestly make their sites more accessible.
At all times he strove honestly to live up to the light that was in him.
Their wars were almost perpetual, their peaces never honestly carried out.
I honestly can't tell it it's real or if it's a really well-done pisstake.
And I really feel many of the official entries (most Moore films) are honestly worser than NSNA.
There are several things you should ask yourself honestly before you buy the latest gas grill with all of the bells and whistles.
These hosts have low-priced gold, but you honestly don't know where they got it.
First, government guidelines for what can be considered honestly "organic" pet foods are still being hashed out.
Do you honestly need to stock your shelves with only the top name in peanut butter?
Think about what belongs in your closet, and what honestly does not.
Do you honestly think I want to marry it?
Or maybe he honestly thought it was you who cut him loose.
I have seen her through some pretty nasty heartache, but honestly, I'm not confident she could survive losing you, and now she won't have to.
He knew he was answering honestly.
But she lingered on at Coppet, constantly hankering after Paris, and acknowledging the hankering quite honestly.
As it was composed in rather less than six months, and as the author honestly warns us that he has given all his attention to a more profound co-ordination, instead of working out the special explanations more fully, as he had promised, we need not be surprised if the result is disappointing to those who had mastered the corresponding portion of the Positive Philosophy.
But there are no reasons for thinking the performance ironical or insincere, and it cannot be doubted that Defoe would have been honestly unable even to understand Lamb's indignation.
He appears, however, to have set himself honestly to carry out reforms. The economical condition of Italy evidently excited his alarm and sympathy.
It may now be safely affirmed that in the majority of states the elections are honestly conducted; that intimidation, bribery, stuffing of the ballot boxes or other forms of corruption, when they exist, are owing in large measure to temporary or local causes; and that the tendency of recent years has been towards a decrease in all forms of corruption.
In 1681, parliament, under the duke of York as commissioner, passed a test act so drafted that no human being could honestly and logically take the test.
Burghley and Sir John Puckering seem to have assisted Bacon honestly, if not overwarmly, in this second application; but the conduct of Cecil had roused suspicions which were not perhaps without foundation.
His army and the lazzaroni committed nameless atrocities, which he honestly tried to prevent, and the Parthenopaean Republic collapsed.
Cromwells rule was covered with military glory, and there can be no doubt that he honestly applied himself to solve domestic difficulties as well.
We may be sure that neither he nor Burke would have devised any government for India which they did not honestly believe to be for the advantage both of that country and of England.
No one, it is said, who ever feels remorse for the committal of a wrong act can honestly avoid the admission that at the moment when the act was committed he could have acted otherwise.
They had but one desire, to put themselves on a good footing again with Cond, instead of applying themselves honestly to the service dAnc,e.
His sole aim is honestly to relate what he knew of the glorious struggles of his nation.