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US
/ˈmænəfɛstɫi/
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[ UK /mˈænɪfˌɛstli/ ]
[ UK /mˈænɪfˌɛstli/ ]
ADVERB
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unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
You are plainly wrong
he is plain stubborn
the answer is obviously wrong
she was in bed and evidently in great pain
he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list
it is all patently nonsense
I thought he owned the property, but apparently not
she has apparently been living here for some time
How To Use manifestly In A Sentence
- The crime is manifestly a fiction, a movie-inspired fantasy.
- Women manifestly have the ability to detect rivals and to employ a variety of tactics to place themselves at an advantage over them.
- One thing that is manifestly true is that it is only in caffs that you can find a decent cup of tea or a cappuccino.
- Their main bone of contention is the qualification process, which they consider manifestly unfair and skewed against them. Times, Sunday Times
- What it manifestly fails to realise is that the Internet is a huge marketing tool.
- These do have the advantage of being falsifiable, since they are manifestly false. The Times Literary Supplement
- It is manifestly not what public servants and military careerists are used to.
- The energy conveyed by those people is manifestly beneficial to the society that absorbs it.
- Seville cathedral, did his share as editor by writing two prefaces, one addressed to Sarmiento de Mendoza, and the other to Olivares who was manifestly expected to pronounce against Gongorism. Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
- And first, we are to consider that of conceptions there are three sorts, whereof one is of that which is present, which is sense; another, of that which is past, which is remembrance; and the third, of that which is future, which we call expectation: all which have been manifestly declared in the second and the third chapter. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
