candidly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a candid manner; frankly.

   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."

2. 2
   adv

   (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that

Etymology

From candid + -ly.