overtly

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English overt Middle English -ly English -ly English overtly From overt + -ly.

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.”

   “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.”