without hiding any feelings, opinions or information:
Can you talk openly about sex with your parents? * The men in prison would never cry openly (= so that other people could see).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for openly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is openly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, openly is tagged as adverb.
Does openly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — openly appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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