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# honestly

«honestly» in Mova's school dictionary: **in an honest way, without lying, cheating or stealing** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Honestly means in an honest way, without lying, cheating or stealing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honestly/#m1)

2) Honestly is said to show you are telling the truth or giving your real opinion: «Honestly, I didn't take it.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honestly/#m2)

3) Honestly can show you are annoyed or surprised: «Oh, honestly!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honestly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In values lessons, playing honestly means following the rules; answering honestly means telling the truth even when it is hard. In everyday speech, «honestly» stresses that you mean what you say. In stories, «she answered honestly» shows the reader a truthful character. Phrases: «answer honestly», «to be honest», «honestly speaking», «Oh, honestly!».

### examples

- Please answer honestly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honestly/#x1)
- Honestly, I didn't eat the last biscuit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honestly/#x2)
- He played the game honestly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honestly/#x3)
- I honestly don't know where it is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honestly/#x4)
- She honestly told the teacher she had forgotten her homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honestly/#x5)
- "Oh, honestly! Who left the door open?" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honestly/#x6)
- Honestly, it's the best book I've read. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honestly/#x7)
- You can talk to me honestly about anything. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honestly/#x8)
- The old debt was honestly paid, and the king got his bond back again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honestly/#x9)

### note

Adverb from «honest» + -ly. The «h» is silent: «ON-ist-lee». Spelling: honest + ly; do not drop the t. Saying «honestly» does not prove someone is telling the truth.

### In the corpora

- [They disagree honestly, and the next election lets everyone choose again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/7/)
- [You cannot honestly claim to feel sad the way people do; you should never make someone feel guilty for leaving.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning/13/)
- [Use what they taught you to help people understand, check and learn, honestly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/30-who-you-are-what-you-will-do/12/)
- [Dropping a promise for a better offer hurts the other person, so keep it or ask them honestly first.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/199-promises/20/)
- [If you lose or damage a library book, you tell the librarian honestly; hiding it is worse than paying for it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/259-library-and-books/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «honestly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honestly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.