Dubiously
Dubiously adverb - With distrust.
Explicitly is an antonym for dubiously.
Nearby Words: dubious, dubiousness
Explicitly
Explicitly adverb - In an explicit manner.
Both words in one sentence
- Some novels dropped the ambiguously part and made him explicitly gay; said novels are dubiously canon at best but pretty much everyone out-of-universe assumes he's gay at this point, even if the comics have yet to actually say it.
Source: Ambiguously Gay / Comic Books
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