Synonym: bluffly, brusquely, flat out, roundly. Similar words: blunt, blunder, blunderbuss, voluntary, volunteer, gently, involuntary, voluntarily. Meaning: ['blʌntlɪ] 
adv. in a blunt direct manner.
adv. in a blunt direct manner. 
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1) 'You're drunk,' she said bluntly.
2) She told me bluntly it was my own fault.
3) The chancellor bluntly warned the Cabinet to axe public spending or face higher taxes.
4) The Pope bluntly told the world's priests yesterday to stay celibate.
5) To put it bluntly, he became a pain.
6) To put it bluntly , I want a divorce.
7) To put it bluntly, I can't afford it.
8) To put it bluntly, you're fired!
9) 'Is she dead?' he asked bluntly.
10) "I don't believe you!" Jeanne said bluntly.
11) She told me bluntly that I should lose weight.
12) 'I won't do it!'she informed him bluntly.
13) "No, you're not,[http://sentencedict.com/bluntly.html] " Graham replied bluntly.
14) To put it bluntly , she's not up to the job.
15) Lord Beaverbrook, to put it bluntly, played hell with the war policy of the R.A.F.
16) He doesn't, to put it very bluntly, give a damn about the woman or the baby.
17) To put it bluntly, you're going to have to improve.
18) Everton, to put it bluntly, are in dire straits.
19) And, to put it bluntly, marriage means security.
20) The explanation came in the second paragraph, very bluntly, without any preamble.
21) Maybe I delivered my opinion more bluntly than I should have, but I had always been candid with Ted.
22) Perhaps she ought not to have spoken so bluntly[sentencedict.com], even though he was asking for it.
23) That is a statutory offence or, more bluntly put, a criminal offence.
24) She says bluntly what she thinks about landowners, the Royal Family, social injustice and access to the hills.
25) On Monday she bluntly rejected a temporary ceasefire offer by the rebels, which would have allowed the government troops to withdraw.
26) Faith in the City concluded bluntly that the 1977 White Paper's' policy proposals have not been tried and found wanting.
27) Put bluntly, the Lexus has the smoothest and most refined drivetrain in existence.
28) We get on each other's nerves, to put it bluntly .
29) Through an amplifier, the New York maintains its acoustic brightness and bluntly refuses to be anything other than a blank canvas.
30) I couldn't give a stuff about Kylie Minogue or a stuff about him, to put it bluntly.
More similar words: blunt, blunder, blunderbuss, voluntary, volunteer, gently, involuntary, voluntarily, potently, recently, gallantly, intently, urgently, silently, gauntlet, ignorantly, presently, defiantly, eloquently, inherently, evidently, instantly, apparently, fervently, currently, elegantly, frequently, violently, insolently, incessantly.