Thesaurus results for HONESTLY

honestly

adverb

ˈä-nəst-lē

Definition of honestly

as in frankly

to tell the truth honestly, I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about

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Recent Examples of honestly And no style is over $100, which honestly feels impossible these days. — Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2026 The Eagles have been inconsistent all year and are honestly lucky to even be 2-2. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 On mornings when my face looks puffy (which is, honestly, most mornings), the cooling tip is just what the doctor ordered. — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026 The final exchange is honestly the strangest and teases what’s in store for this week’s SNL episode. — Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for honestly

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The serious question of, frankly, human survival did not seem to interest them at all.

— Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
There are four of us on staff at The Verge actively testing Googlebooks and, frankly, our internal Slack discussions have been mostly filled with collective venting of frustrations, disappointments, and bewilderment.

— Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of frankly

Adverb

But Hall and Woodford, in separate contributions, set about improving the Keynesian model to take into account how consumers and businesses actually make decisions about whether to invest and spend.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
But actually, the precise challenge was to not treat it as a joke.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of actually

Adverb

And to have this chance to see these birds is really thrilling.

— JOSEPH FREDERICK, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
In Our Opinion goes beyond the headlines to examine what decisions really mean, where policies succeed or fail, and what leaders should do next.

— Washington Examiner, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of really

Adverb

The week has indeed offered more drama than anything Netflix will put on its service this year.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026
Forty years after two powerful men met in Reykjavík, three women—indeed, three world leaders—came together to continue the conversation.

— Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

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