BALDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baldly mean? 

• BALDLY (adverb)
  The adverb BALDLY has 1 sense:

1. in a bald manner

  Familiarity information: BALDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a bald manner

Context example:

this book is, to put it baldly, an uneven work.

Pertainym:

bald (with no effort to conceal)

 Context examples 

Those are the main facts of the case, stripped of all surmise, and stated as baldly as possible.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Baldly as he had stated it, in his eyes was a rich vision of that hot, starry night at Salina Cruz, the white strip of beach, the lights of the sugar steamers in the harbor, the voices of the drunken sailors in the distance, the jostling stevedores, the flaming passion in the Mexican's face, the glint of the beast-eyes in the starlight, the sting of the steel in his neck, and the rush of blood, the crowd and the cries, the two bodies, his and the Mexican's, locked together, rolling over and over and tearing up the sand, and from away off somewhere the mellow tinkling of a guitar.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)