overtly
/oʊvˈɝtli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.16 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Roumeli belonged to ELAS, and the commander who first took him into his particular band was proudly and overtly Communist."
- "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."
- "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"
- "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."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more overtly (comparative)
most overtly (superlative)