baldly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a bald manner

   this book is, to put it baldly, an uneven work.

2. 2
   adv

   In a bald (blunt, matter-of-fact, unembellished, or lacking supporting details) manner.

   For they who ſuppoſe that Hades, that is to ſay, Pluto, is ſaid to be the body and as it were the ſepulcher of the ſoule, as if it ſeemed to be fooliſh and drunken all the while ſhe is within it, me thinkes they doe allegorize but very baldly.

Etymology

From bald + -ly.