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overtly

[oh-vurt-lee, oh-vurt-lee]

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adverb

openly; publicly.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English; see overt, -ly

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No longer are stockings the silent partner in business attireThese days, hosiery overtly complements clothing.

My untenured office mate several years ago had a situation in which she was overtly pressured by a coach.

Overtly political plays were considered outdated and unfashionable.

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No longer are stockings the silent partner in business attireThese days, hosiery overtly complements clothing.

My untenured office mate several years ago had a situation in which she was overtly pressured by a coach.

Overtly political plays were considered outdated and unfashionable.

Whites are overtly discriminated against in our society, and your piece of propaganda is a great example of it.

Gee, let's support our case by referencing overtly biased, agenda-pushing sources.

Her reaction was so overtly prudent it sent the others into an unprecedented panic.

Virus writers often use their creations to make a point, but few are overtly political.

One lashes out deceptively from any side of the baseline, the other overtly attacks the net.

Though not overtly about suicide, this poem concerns the precarious balance of living.

But the commission dare not overtly encourage regionalist ambitions, for fear of antagonising powerful member governments.

And in turn that allows the adults involved to demonstrate rather than order or overtly teach.

While the campaign was not overtly racial, its denouement has taken on racial overtones.

Both cases have been time consuming, non-transparent and at times overtly politicised.

That, to me, is an example of a great movie that deals overtly with the struggle of questioning one's existence.

With all countries you have a certain threshold at which you can squeeze them either covertly or overtly.

Piggle-Wiggle, and the only writer whose desk décor is not overtly terrifying.

Batasuna does not repudiate the terrorism its armed friends practise, but neither does it overtly preach it.

But for this cabinet post more than any other, an overtly political appointment would have been corrosive to investor confidence.

Much of his later verse avoided overtly political themes.

But the demands of the tent people are not overtly political.

With crowdsourcing, some voices are more tacitly and overtly accepted than others.

Even some of our current western nations overtly present the moral as the powerful.

The student is not only narcissistic, but overtly hostile.

In many cases parents either overtly or subtly encouraged the feminine behavior.

There's nothing overtly funny about that one, but for some reason it tickled.

None is overtly political, though politics is never far beneath the surface.

Roxas's attack and delicately intense way of seeming to inhabit each moment made her the more overtly dramatic of the two.

Glad it went well, and that there was nothing overtly troubling in the first round.

Japan is so overtly futurist, it's no surprise that modern technology is influencing the current crop of graphic designers.

Many are not overtly political, nor sure exactly what kind of government they want, but they do know that this isn't.

They attack it everywhere they can and are overtly trying to drive it from the public square.

There was nothing overtly wrong with the sounds, but they lacked spice.

Most of the guys who do these rampages are not overtly disturbed.

The early and more overtly athletic days were represented by two relatively simple pure-movement pieces.

When men of economic power start meddling overtly in politics, the results are usually bad.

That's not unusual in a segment of the music industry that overtly celebrates crime.

Grooms's first lithograph, uses irony to make a strong anti-war statement, but it is one of his few overtly political critiques.

The neighbors are a sinister lot, many of them men overtly threatening to the blind women.

His singing is noticeably rougher and more overtly blues-tinged.

Flowers, fragile as they are, have to stand up to the tough and often overtly snobbish standards of the moment.

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World English Dictionary

overt (ˈəʊvɜːt, əʊˈvɜːt)

—*adj*
1.	open to view; observable
2.	law open; deliberate. Criminal intent may be inferred from an overt act

[C14: via Old French, from ovrir to open, from Latin aperīre]

'overtly

—*adv*

'overtness

—n

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overtly

early 14c., from overt.

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