Evidently
Evidently adverb - Unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly').
Usage example: she was in bed and evidently in great pain
Plain
Plain adverb - Unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly').
Usage example: he is plain stubborn
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Both words in one sentence
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English sociologist Henry Mayhew once described the case of a lower-class servant girl with the first name Rosetta ("as if she had been a Duchess"), the master of the house evidently took offense to such presumptuousness and promptly renamed her "plain" Susan.
Source: Preppy Name
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