as in honestly
to tell the truth
frankly, I'd rather stay at home than go to the movies tonight
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Recent Examples of frankly
The pricing for a Pro account is, frankly, atrocious.
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PC Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
And of course, there’s the turmoil in the US Treasury market — the clearest, and frankly scariest, rebuke of Trump’s tariff policies to date.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2025
Split Fiction takes everything the studio has learned from those games and expanded on it in the most creative and frankly jubilant way imaginable.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Per the inimitable Nicole Kidman, movies have a unique power to provoke intense emotions, and frankly that may be all that’s separating us from the looming robots at this point.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2025
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PC Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
And of course, there’s the turmoil in the US Treasury market — the clearest, and frankly scariest, rebuke of Trump’s tariff policies to date.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2025
Split Fiction takes everything the studio has learned from those games and expanded on it in the most creative and frankly jubilant way imaginable.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Per the inimitable Nicole Kidman, movies have a unique power to provoke intense emotions, and frankly that may be all that’s separating us from the looming robots at this point.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for frankly
Adverb
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Venus-Neptune conjunction in Aries on May 2: Meet each other more honestly.—
Colin Bedell,
Them.,
25 Apr. 2025
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The bridge [took] a few takes, but honestly, the song itself happened quite fast – all the mixing and that.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
25 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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While guests have gotten used to early and extended evening park access, those benefits are actually decided on annually and have been extended for next year.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Inspired by outer space, this bath is perhaps the only one influenced by a place the clients have never actually visited, including a vintage stone sink that reminded Hoffman of moon rock.—
David Foxley,
Architectural Digest,
21 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Does the College of Cardinals really come together to choose a new pope via…a conclave?—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
22 Apr. 2025
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But as the Bullet Time video below shows, 120fps slow-motion video really pushed the capabilities of the 1/1.8-inch sensors.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
22 Apr. 2025
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And indeed, there are few of its peers with the ambition to create art on this scale.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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The magic does indeed happen—the wondrous deceptions, the seeming distortions of reality, the sense of strangeness.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Frankly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frankly. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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