baldly, adv.
(ˈbɔːldlɪ)
[f. bald a. + -ly2.]
In a bald manner; meagrely; nakedly.
| 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1057 (R.) They do allegorize but very baldly. 1863 Kinglake Crimea (1877) II. xiv. 236 They did not state baldly what they had ascertained. |