Plainly in a sentence as an adverb

And that's not a subtle legal gotcha, it should be plainly obvious.

"But it uses a silly writing device to illustrate a point it could have just made plainly!

They quite plainly state that they knew this would alienate their existing audience, and that they were perfectly fine with that.

If he'd spoken plainly and not tried to mimic one of a hundred libertarian web sites that rail on such things it probably would have been clearer.

Do awesome work, and networking becomes mostly a matter of showing up and saying plainly and understandably what you've done.

The press release kindly submitted here is plainly not Edward Snowden's verbatim words, but more self-publicizing from Wikileaks.

It is plainly too complicated to be left to individual web service providers, just as brick-and-mortar stores do not manufacture their own door locks or burglar alarms.

It's plainly obvious that you aren't expected to actually be fiscally sound--otherwise why would they keep flooding you with credit invitations?Cars are expensive and limited in utility.

Google really should have the cojones to stand up and state their actual position plainly, which as far as I can tell is this:"If you haven't taken an active, positive step to block our +1 buttons, we're going to assume you don't really care and we'll do whatever we can to show them to you, no matter what your browser's default settings are.

When he says, "Bacteria, like any living organism, want to survive," and "So anything that we do to try and **** bacteria, or anything the environment does to try and **** bacteria, bacteria will eventually discover ways or find ways around those" he is making factual statements that are plainly incorrect on their face.

Plainly definitions

adverb

unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn"

See also: obviously evidently manifestly patently apparently plain

adverb

in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment; "she was dressed plainly"; "they lived very simply"

See also: simply