baldly
- a word derived from bald.
Example Sentences
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Instead, Malaysia’s plight exemplifies what a baldly transactional and one-sided approach produces in practice.
From Salon • Aug. 2, 2025
To baldly paraphrase Oliver Wendell Holmes, three generations of pointy-headed lawyers is enough.
From Slate • Aug. 7, 2024
As concessions go, this one is both massive and vague, too baldly strategic to produce a real reconciliation.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2023
The novel splits its pants — its concerns earthly but its outcomes stratospheric, its devices outlandish but its plot twists baldly predictable.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2023
In 1916 Satie concocted a baldly insulting parody of themes from Gounod’s opera Mireille, and several of his cabaret songs make fun of Massenet’s supposed sentimentality.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
