Overtly and Really

Overtly

Overtly adverb - In an overt manner.

Really and overtly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Really" instead an adverb "Overtly".

Nearby Word: overt

Really

Really adverb - In actual fact.

Overtly and really are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Overtly" instead an adverb "Really".

Both words in one sentence

  • In Jingo, 71-Hour Ahmed is overtly employed as a Klatchian government agent, but his scary demeanour makes people think of him as pet rat when he's really rather more.
    Source: Pet Rat
  • Video Game / Kathy Rain He proves to be really quite helpful at several points in the game, unlike the overtly hostile and dismissive Sheriff Boyks, but he is also a bit awkward, timid, and unlucky.
  • Literature / Foundation Likewise the Foundation's religion of science was overtly this But really a tool of the Mayor. N.G.O.
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