overtly

From overt +‎ -ly.

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overtly (comparative more overtly, superlative most overtly)

1. 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:

     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:

     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]:

     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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