overtly
See also: overly
English
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[edit]overtly (comparative more overtly, superlative most overtly)
- In an overt manner; publicly; openly.
- 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 190:
- Roumeli belonged to ELAS, and the commander who first took him into his particular band was proudly and overtly Communist.
- 2022 October 3, Helen Lewis, “The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat”, in The Atlantic[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 5 March 2023:
- The arrival of Trump in the White House gave a new urgency to the idea that museums needed to decolonize” their collections, atone for their past elitism, and become overtly political institutions rather than mere warehouses of valuable objects.
- 2024 June 16, Observer editorial, “The Observer view on the French election: Emmanuel Macron is playing a dangerous game”, in The Observer[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 6 July 2024:
- An outright far-right victory in the two-round poll, which commences on 30 June, could render Macron a lame duck, doomed to cohabit” with an overtly xenophobic, Islamophobic, authoritarian and illiberal government led, prospectively, by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s young protege
- 2024 November 7, Ned Temko, “With Trump, ‘America First’ is back. US allies brace for a shock.”, in The Christian Science Monitor[3], archived from the original on 11 January 2025:
- The message from this week’s election – and from the angry, at times overtly sexist and authoritarian rhetoric that Mr. Trump used on the campaign trail – is that America is a deeply, angrily, unstably divided country.
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