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Etymology
From candid + -ly.
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candidly (comparative more candidly, superlative most candidly)
- in a candid manner; frankly.
1891, Henry Melville, chapter 3, in Billy Budd:Such an episode in the Island's grand naval story her naval historians naturally abridge; one of them (G.P.R. James) candidly acknowledging that fain would he pass it over did not "impartiality forbid fastidiousness."
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