BALDLY Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

baldly

adverb

Definition of baldly

as in openly

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Recent Examples of baldly Pinney’s fantasies and visual metaphors are sometimes more poignant in concept than in execution, and a theme of Ray’s crude racist impulses is baldly inserted but left undeveloped. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 June 2026 Premiering the first of eight episodes on Sunday, March 22, The Comeback’s shaggy, despairing, hilarious, and sometimes baldly sentimental third season spends its first two episodes running through all the horsemen of the Hollywood-pocalypse. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026 My job, bluntly, was to spy, but to do it in a way that wasn’t baldly obvious either. — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026 Nobody in the administration has said so baldly. — Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2026 If the baldly stated white supremacism that now fills up my X feed is any guide, that reborn entity drank lots of raw milk and grew up with strong bones and teeth. — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2026 The heartfelt book sees Myers looking back on awkward moments from her own life in her signature laugh-out-loud, baldly honest prose. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025 The state would wield a deleterious influence on public education, with a rounded civic understanding of Israeli democracy replaced by a more baldly nationalist and illiberal one. — Ilan Z. Baron, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024

Recent Examples of Synonyms for baldly

Adverb

However, the creator is fielding queries openly and the project has already surpassed it funding goal.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 July 2026
Huffman, who represents a sprawling slice of Northern California, reaching from the Bay Area to the Oregon border, is one of just four members (out of more than 500) who are openly agnostic or religiously unaffiliated.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Definition of openly

Adverb

Research consistently shows that psychological safety, or the ability to speak candidly without fear of backlash or punishment, is foundational to organizational performance.

— Tracy Lawrence, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Kaling has spoken candidly about her body image throughout her career.

— Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026

Definition of candidly

Adverb

There's a mobile app (Android/iOS) and a desktop app (Windows only), but honestly, who wants more apps bloating their already bloated app ecosystem?

— Joe Salas July 07, New Atlas, 8 July 2026
There should honestly be a sequel parody of Twister where the storm chasers use tornados to cover up their kills.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026

Definition of honestly

Adverb

State plainly, and then prove with your decisions, that time freed by AI goes toward better work and growth rather than toward cuts.

— Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Yet everyone in the United States, lawfully or otherwise, is plainly subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

— Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 7 July 2026

Definition of plainly

Adverb

Now, fresh off one of the most straightforwardly terrible albums of the decade, here comes the Muse Mothership again.

— Liam Inscoe-Jones, Pitchfork, 1 July 2026
Perhaps the cleanest rebuke of noisy nativism would be for England to win, and, if Tuchel can take that final step that eluded Southgate, he’ll be immortalized, too—perhaps in a prestige miniseries of his own, and a more straightforwardly triumphal one at that.

— Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 18 June 2026

Definition of straightforwardly

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Foley has been the one board member who has forthrightly stood up for oversight and accountability on every key issue.

— The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026
Coming off the ice, Malinin forthrightly congratulated the winner, Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan, as if to communicate that Shaidorov won the prize from his own efforts, not from Malinin’s failure.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026

Definition of forthrightly

Adverb

Not the layoffs, the mergers, the rampant unemployment, and the fear that comes with it — all of that and more unreservedly sucks.

— Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 9 July 2026
At once pugnaciously combative and unreservedly sentimental, Landon chose to take the series out with a commentary on class revolt.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026

Definition of unreservedly

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