overtly

comparative more overtly · superlative most overtly

1. In an overt manner; publicly; openly.

   Roumeli belonged to ELAS, and the commander who first took him into his particular band was proudly and overtly Communist.

   1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 190

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   The arrival of Trump in the White House gave a new urgency to the idea that museums needed to decolonize” their collections, atone for their past elitism, and become overtly political institutions rather than mere warehouses of valuable objects.

   2022 October 3, Helen Lewis, “The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2023

   An outright far-right victory in the two-round poll, which commences on 30 June, could render Macron a lame duck, doomed to cohabit” with an overtly xenophobic, Islamophobic, authoritarian and illiberal government led, prospectively, by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s young protege

   2024 June 16, Observer editorial, “The Observer view on the French election: Emmanuel Macron is playing a dangerous game”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2024

   The message from this week’s election – and from the angry, at times overtly sexist and authoritarian rhetoric that Mr. Trump used on the campaign trail – is that America is a deeply, angrily, unstably divided country.

   2024 November 7, Ned Temko, “With Trump, ‘America First’ is back. US allies brace for a shock.”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2025