openly• At that time, people did not often talk openly about death.• If I asked questions about his life he answered them openly but would offer nothing further.• He had been openlycritical of his own archbishop's defence of discrimination against homosexuals in churchemployment.• an openlygaypolitician• Drugs are soldopenly on the city streets.• He was the first person to talk openly on TV about having AIDS.• There was a reluctance among some teachers to say openly that a particular answer to a question was wrong.• This is a rather naiveview of a regime which openlythreatens those who hold different views with death.• By the time she had finished, most of us were openlyweeping with her, and the web was half finished.• This was not a problem he felt he could shareopenly with the other members.• She is smiling plainly and openly, without a trace of irony.
openly critical• He had been openly critical of his own archbishop's defence of discrimination against homosexuals in church employment.• Moores was openly critical of taskforce members who did not attend.• However, the educationalteam took a more openly critical view of the communitydevelopmentprocess and the philosophyunderlying it.