Plainly can be categorized as an adverb.
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| plainly - in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment; "she was dressed plainly"; "they lived very simply" | ||
| plainly - unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "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"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn" |
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| 1. | adv. | She was dressed plainly. | |
| 2. | adv. | You are plainly wrong. | |
| 3. | adv. | So that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God. | |
| 4. | adv. | They were plainly dressed. | |
| 5. | adv. | She plainly interpreted Picasso's paintings to me. | |
| 6. | adv. | And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together. | |
| 7. | adv. | I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed. | |
| 8. | adv. | Stop beating around the bush and tell me plainly what you want from me. | |
| 9. | adv. | As is the case with the above farmer, the whole mentality of contraception birth control is plainly un-natural. | |
| 10. | adv. | He couldn't have put it more plainly. | |
| 11. | adv. | Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already. | |
| 12. | adv. | I'm a plain dealer, I look on life plainly, I think plainly, I speak plainly. | |
| 13. | adv. | Tom could see it plainly. | |
| 14. | adv. | The flickering flame of the northern lights could be plainly seen, whether they rose high or low in the heavens, from every part of the castle. | |
| 15. | adv. | He is plainly wrong. |
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| She was dressed plainly. |
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| You are plainly wrong. |
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| So that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God. | |
| They were plainly dressed. | |
| She plainly interpreted Picasso's paintings to me. | |
| And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together. | |
| I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed. | |
| Stop beating around the bush and tell me plainly what you want from me. | |
| As is the case with the above farmer, the whole mentality of contraception birth control is plainly un-natural. | |
| He couldn't have put it more plainly. | |
| Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already. | |
| I'm a plain dealer, I look on life plainly, I think plainly, I speak plainly. | |
| Tom could see it plainly. | |
| The flickering flame of the northern lights could be plainly seen, whether they rose high or low in the heavens, from every part of the castle. | |
| He is plainly wrong. | |