[
UK
/bˈɔːldli/
]
[ US /ˈbɔɫdɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈbɔɫdɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a bald manner
this book is, to put it baldly, an uneven work.
How To Use baldly In A Sentence
- Heather suggested baldly that Ms. Lane was mentally unstable.
- And what they all display, rather too baldly though highly effectively, is the simple economic importance of the Ocean.
- Put more baldly, he was recognisably mixed-up; and although that made him maddeningly undependable as a politician, it humanised him as a man.
- They viewed all my efforts with healthily unawed wit and baldly critical eyes. CLEAR PICTURES
- In fact, he states baldly that ‘Digital certificates provide no actual security; it's a complete sham.’
- Heather suggested baldly that Ms. Lane was mentally unstable.
- Is it more difficult or valuable to transform theoretical precepts into richly-textured poetic form, or to forego such comforting "aestheticist" pleasure and baldly "bare the device" by having the poem use theoretical language and ideas in a relatively direct, undigestedand thus, aesthetically subversivemanner? Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
- And what they all display, rather too baldly though highly effectively, is the simple economic importance of the Ocean.
- To put it baldly, I can't afford to take the risk.
- BSG had the nerve to do that, and do it baldly, in midst of a gritty human drama. Mind Meld Make-Up Test: Jeffrey A. Carver on BSG