nakedly

comparative more nakedly · superlative most nakedly

1. In a naked manner; without concealing anything; blatantly or openly.

   The past 14 years have shown that decisions on such fundamental issues as fuel duty and fares are taken within the Treasury for nakedly short-term political reasons, with no regard for environmental or transport objectives.

   2024 June 12, Sir Michael Holden, “A manifesto for our railway to thrive”, in RAIL, number 1011, page 41

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   So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.

   2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2013

   It was another chapter in a dismal saga of Nimbyist urban mismanagement that is crushing American cities. Not-in-my-backyardism is a bipartisan sentiment, but because the largest American cities are populated and run by Democrats — many in states under complete Democratic control — this sort of nakedly exclusionary urban restrictionism is a particular shame of the left.

   2019 May 22, Farhad Manjoo, “America’s Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2019