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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for plainly

unmistakably ('plain' is often used informally for 'plainly')

in a simple manner

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Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
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I found by their pointing towards me and to each other, that they plainly discovered me, although they made no return to my shouting.
"But it says plainly: 'Whosoever shall marry her that is divorced...'" said the old princess.
'Plainly, madam, you come to me as an enigma, and you leave me to make the right guess by the unaided efforts of my art.
("'Plain language and plainly?' Good God!" said here the king on the left to himself; "one seeth he doth not know the good Occidentals, this sage out of the Orient!
Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy.
Tell me plainly, have you any reason to distrust Sir Percival Glyde?"
He wrote many more, but, as has been said, these three verses were all that could be plainly and perfectly deciphered.
When Sancho discovered he could not find the book his face grew deadly pale, and in great haste he again felt his body all over, and seeing plainly it was not to be found, without more ado he seized his beard with both hands and plucked away half of it, and then, as quick as he could and without stopping, gave himself half a dozen cuffs on the face and nose till they were bathed in blood.
Own it plainly, Lucy, if I am asking too much in asking you to keep a secret from your husband."
She saw Clara's position plainly; she understood the disturbing effect of it on the mind of a young girl.
Such was his position, and such should have been the substance of his reply when he was confronted by Arnold's question, and plainly asked what he meant to do.
"I'm glad to hear you see your way so plainly," returned Arnold.
"Suppose I don't see my way quite so plainly as you think," said Geoffrey.
The pages of my diary, written in past years, will show plainly enough that it is not she who is driving me away from England.
The ballet is well constructed and the story plainly told, the choreography deftly matching each mood as we move from the family home to the graveyard, the ballroom, and the various locales of the final act, with its search for the owner of the slipper.