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UK
/nˈeɪkɪdli/
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ADVERB
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in an exposed manner; without protection or defense
they were attacked as they huddled nakedly on the bare hill -
without clothing
Henriette saw the weaving figure of an Apache warrior reel nakedly on a pony and rush by with a rifle raised
How To Use nakedly In A Sentence
- His decision not to hold a poll is a "nakedly cynical" calculation that he can "bulldoze" the treaty into law. Archive 2007-09-01
- they were attacked as they huddled nakedly on the bare hill
- Rarely has the role of corporate money in buying congressmen and their votes been so nakedly on display as in the promotion of this measure.
- The movie nakedly presents elements of that naturalization of roles and of the consequences it produces in a declining middle class.
- Rustic, nakedly beautiful and breathless, part Fahey as it dustily scratches away at your resistance until you can do nothing but succumb to its incandescent inner passion.
- And so what if the films they produce are more street-smart, more professional, less nakedly polemical?
- The same woman, of course, had modeled for both figures, that glorious pear-shaped belly less nakedly obvious in the painting, but unmistakably outlined by the flowing folds of her dress. 2009 April « Tales from the Reading Room
- Soon Ammons would set aside such heavy masks as he sought clarity's sound more nakedly, aspiring, as in a lesser-known Ezra poem, to ‘the Way in whose timeless reach/cool thought unpunishable / by bones eternally glides.’
- The article broadens out from these beginnings into a savage attack on both political apathy and nakedly self-interested politicians.
- I speak my mind, just like that, nakedly right out there in the open, shockingly point-blank in front of everybody.