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What does openly mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word openly? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. In an open manner, visibly, not covertly.
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It's not a good look watching grown men and women openly weeping while reading a tabloid newspaper!
Senior mainland officials have reconfirmed a promise to university students to openly discuss the crackdown.
However, the initial whorl of these gastropods is unknown and therefore it is unknown whether it is tightly or openly coiled.
By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites.
With great reluctance the Union admits new members who write in Russian, openly emphasizing the preference for writers who write in Kazakh.
Nick is not sure he agrees with the policy of excluding openly gay scoutmasters, and I find it a difficult issue myself.

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