adverb

• Without any extra detail or explanation; plainly; bluntly.

  ‘'I really needed the cash,' she says baldly’

  More example sentences

  • ‘it seems enough to state the facts baldly’
  • ‘Today, few colleges baldly award honorary degrees to benefactors.’
  • ‘Three or four shops openly sell endangered-species pelts, one place baldly calling itself the Snow Leopard Shop.’
  • ‘I cannot think of any politician today who would give bad news so baldly.’
  • ‘The moment of her death was the most baldly sentimental moment in the narrative.’
  • ‘Stated baldly, the proposition makes no sense.’
  • ‘I went so far as to admit this fact baldly in a recent declaration which was commented upon most strangely.’
  • ‘Of course, if you put it as baldly as that, people will just laugh and ignore you.’
  • ‘His actions are so baldly out of character that it was funny.’
  • ‘Her motives seem baldly obvious.’
  • ‘He baldly stated that history was about politics and the state, and nothing else.’