Bluntly is an English word with synonyms like brusquely or roundly. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bluntly in a sentence
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Bluntly meaning
In a blunt manner; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
Using Bluntly
- The main meaning on this page is: In a blunt manner; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
- Useful related words include: bluffly, brusquely, flat out, roundly.
- In the example corpus, bluntly often appears in combinations such as: it bluntly, bluntly told, more bluntly.
Context around Bluntly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bluntly
- In this selection, "bluntly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, put, responded, oksana, take, don and spoke stand out and add context to how "bluntly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bit bluntly to invest and bluntly don t. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bluntly" sits close to words such as acumen, agri and ajayi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bluntly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The next day, President Putin responded quite bluntly. (8 words)
To put it bluntly, a animal can be a biological nightmare. (11 words)
When discussing what needs to be done to revive the baseball team, the coach responded bluntly. (16 words)
She continued: "He came home fuming demanding I tell him the results but I refused and bluntly told him, since he refused to attend the appointment then he gets no results til after the baby's born and said I was willing to die on this hill. (47 words)
Oksana bluntly replied that her view was not from a position of ignorance, and that she had in fact “read police statistics”, had read news reports in English, and had heard “so many dangerous stories” from locals about Islamic terrorism and violence. (42 words)
He said that John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, who was one of the festival’s organizers, “just said to me bluntly a couple of years later, ‘So sorry you weren’t in the film. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Although the longtime team owner labeled the defeat “sickening,” he didn’t bluntly take aim at Prescott or head coach Mike McCarthy, whose job security is not in jeopardy.
Bluntly, don't count on me to announce another big revenue jump two years from now," Hegar said.
Bluntly, I said I wanted to talk to Kylie more than I wanted to talk to them, and ran to the payphone and called her.
He bluntly spoke to the effects of the sex-abuse crisis on the Church, but he also confronted the deeper crisis in the modern world and in the Church through the loss of faith.
He said that John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, who was one of the festival’s organizers, “just said to me bluntly a couple of years later, ‘So sorry you weren’t in the film.
In other words, the victims would do well to weigh whether the anticipated large-scale carnage is, put bluntly, worth it, given the unlikelihood of victory.
O'Keefe didn't beat around the bush and bluntly asked the Press Secretary about the drop in numbers.
Oksana bluntly replied that her view was not from a position of ignorance, and that she had in fact “read police statistics”, had read news reports in English, and had heard “so many dangerous stories” from locals about Islamic terrorism and violence.
Prigozhin’s supporters claimed on their messaging app channels that it was shot down by an air defense system, bluntly accusing authorities of assassinating him.
Put bluntly, the expectation is that this version of Galaxy Unpacked will mostly be about the phones.
She continued: "He came home fuming demanding I tell him the results but I refused and bluntly told him, since he refused to attend the appointment then he gets no results til after the baby's born and said I was willing to die on this hill.
So to put it a bit bluntly, to invest a lot, you need to earn even more.
The next day, President Putin responded quite bluntly.
The trailer ends with bluntly telling everyone, "Welcome to club dead" before a final axe swing closes out the teaser on a violent note.
To put it bluntly, a animal can be a biological nightmare.
When asked how the Steelers managed to get the Texans to give up a draft pick for Green, Wilson responded bluntly.
When asked if Jasbe would still consider developing the site without an access road, Mr Morgan bluntly stated "no".
When discussing what needs to be done to revive the baseball team, the coach responded bluntly.
When I asked the bank teller for new notes, she told me bluntly that they have not been given much new notes by the CBN.
Young responded quietly but bluntly that he’s always played well despite being on the smaller side and that he would be comfortable with a playing weight of 200 pounds.
Common combinations with bluntly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- it bluntly 17×
- bluntly told 12×
- more bluntly 8×
- and bluntly 5×
- bluntly to 5×
- bluntly that 5×
- bluntly said 4×
- responded bluntly 4×
- he bluntly 3×
- me bluntly 3×