bluntly

How To Use bluntly In A Sentence

• He asked me bluntly, ‘Why would you want to leave private life and take on such a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless job?’
• At the gathering, Secretary General Kofi Annan listened quietly to three and a half hours of bluntly worded counsel from a group united in its personal regard for him and support for the United Nations.
• Bluntly, what the founding fathers described as a militiaman was a warrior citizen. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
• It was bluntly perforated in front of the mamillary bodies with the aid of a catheter.
• To recognize this political fact and state it bluntly in no way minimizes the criminal repression carried out by the ruling elite in Russia against the Chechen people.
• As ever, the finely nuanced statement did not put matters quite so bluntly.
• Some may be brazen enough to ask bluntly if they could borrow it for a family holiday when you're not using it. Times, Sunday Times
• A vote for Prop. 23 is a vote to turn the lungs of poor children into a snack for dinosaurs, to put it in bluntly Hollywood-ish terms. Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23
• Showing our backbone and speaking bluntly has to be contrary to our nature. Christianity Today
• But he and his advisers rightly think his best sales point is his image as an antipolitical politician, a country doctor turned governor who boasts of "my directness and my unwillingness to bend" as he bluntly diagnoses all the ills of American life. There's A Chill In The Air