Straightforwardly

adv. [-LY².] In a straightforward manner.

  1.  Honestly, frankly, without reserve.

1829.  Philad. Inquirer, 1 Jan., 2/1. He, on the contrary, under the strong and steady impulse of a pure and generous passion, spoke, with gentleness indeed, but clearly, firmly, and straight-forwardly.

1839.  G. P. R. James, Louis XIV., I. 279. The question was even put to it straightforwardly, whether it pretended, or not, to circumscribe the royal authority.

1864.  J. H. Newman, Apol., 429. He avoided … having any thing to do with two-face persons, who did not go simply and straightforwardly to work in their transactions.

1903.  De Blowitz, Mem., 234. The friend who unfortunately, and quite straightforwardly, led us into this frightful speculation.

  2.  In consecutive order, without digression or intricacy.

1874.  Ruskin, Fors Clav., xxxvii. 12. I do not pretend to tell you straightforwardly all the laws of nature respecting the conduct of men; but some of those laws I know [etc.].

1906.  Daily Chron., 16 July, 3/2. ‘Bess of the Woods’ is a quite straightforwardly told tale of the life of well-to-do country folk in the eighteenth century.