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outspokenly

American  
[aut-spoh-kuhn-lee] / ˌaʊtˈspoʊ kən li /

adverb

  1. in an outspoken way.


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Outside of their acting performance, Ishii is outspokenly antifascist.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2025

I have been outspokenly critical of how CDC and those other agencies have handled the opioid crisis, but the solution is not to take a wrecking ball to the institutions that protect us.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

Plus, Wright says, Ye’s outspokenly contrarian, against-the-grain opinions are in part what’s made him successful since the beginning — making Owens a sort of kindred spirit in the moment.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022

In 2018, one of the station's most popular and outspokenly conservative radio show hosts, Ninoska Pérez Castellón, even scored an exclusive interview with then-President Donald Trump.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2022

In Chicago, increasing numbers of Muslims were leaving Mosque Two, I heard, and many non-Muslims who had been sympathetic to the Nation were now outspokenly anti-Muslim.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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