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Etymology

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From truth +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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truthly (comparative more truthly, superlative most truthly)

  1. (nonstandard, proscribed) In accordance with truth; honestly, without deceit; truthfully.
    • 2004, David A. J. Richards, Tragic manhood and democracy: Verdi's voice and the power of musical art[1]:
      The spirit of music serves such tragic insights because it speaks truthly to and of the disassociated emotions of the alienated mind and body that patriarchy psychologically inflicts on men and women.