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Overtly

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o·vert  (-vûrt, vûrt)
adj.
1. Open and observable; not hidden, concealed, or secret: overt hostility; overt intelligence gathering.
2. Of, relating to, or being military or intelligence operations sanctioned or mandated by Congress: overt aid to the rebels.
[Middle English, from Old French, past participle of ovrir, to open, from Vulgar Latin *perre, alteration (influenced by Latin cperre, to cover) of Latin aperre; see wer-4 in Indo-European roots.]
o·vertly adv.
o·vertness n.
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Adv.1.overtly - in an overt manner; "he did it overtly"
covertly - in a covert manner; "he did it covertly"


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Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly, divide and subdivide it; melt it to liquid, convert it to gas; it will always weigh a pound; it will always attract and resist other matter by the full virtue of one pound weight:--and the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force,--if not overtly, then covertly; if not for the law, then against it; if not wholesomely, then poisonously; with right, or by might.
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
She did not look overtly at the customer till she had established herself comfortably on the chair.
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