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Bluntly vs Frankly - What's the difference?

bluntly | frankly |

As adverbs the difference between bluntly and frankly

is that bluntly is in a blunt manner; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility while frankly is in a frank, open or (too) honest manner.

bluntly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a blunt manner; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.

    • Synonyms

    * coarsely, plainly, abruptly

    frankly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (lb) In a frank, open or (too) honest manner.
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  • *:She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
  • (lb) In truth, to tell the truth.
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