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affront an openly insulting deed or remark. [2/4 definitions]
avow to state openly; admit; confess. [1/2 definitions]
avowed openly stated or freely declared or acknowledged.
beam to smile openly or joyfully. [1/8 definitions]
come to grips with to understand the reality of; face openly. [1/2 definitions]
defy to resist or challenge openly; act against the wishes or decrees of. [1/3 definitions]
extend to give or offer openly (good wishes, offers of help or invitation, congratulations, or the like). [1/8 definitions]
flout to show scorn or contempt for, esp. by openly or deliberately disobeying. [1/3 definitions]
Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu an American of Japanese descent who, during World War II, was one of only a few Japanese-Americans to openly defy the relocation orders of the U.S. Government. Korematsu was arrested and sent to an internment center in 1942, and his challenge to the constitutionality of forced relocation was ruled against by the Supreme Court in 1944 in Korematsu v. United States (b.1919--d.2005).
Gordon Hirabayashi an American of Japanese descent who, during World War II, was one of only a few Japanese-Americans to openly defy the relocation orders of the U.S. Government. He challenged the constitutionality of the application of curfews for minority groups, and his case eventually went to the Supreme Court, where he was unanimously ruled against in Hirabayashi v. United States in 1943 (b.1918--2012).
honestly in an honest manner; openly; forthrightly. [1/2 definitions]
Minoru Yasui an American of Japanese descent who, during World War II, was one of few Japanese-Americans to openly violate curfew restrictions and defy the relocation orders of the U.S. Government. He challenged the constitutionality of the application of curfews to people based on their ethnicity, and his case eventually went to the Supreme Court, where he was unanimously ruled against in Yasui v. United States in 1943, in a companion case to Hirabayashi v. United States (b.1915--d.1986).
mutiny to rebel openly against constituted authority; engage in revolt. [1/2 definitions]
overt openly apparent; not concealed. (Cf. covert.)
pillage to openly and forcefully seize goods from, as during a war; plunder. [1/4 definitions]
proclaim to make known openly or unmistakably. [1/2 definitions]
profess to acknowledge openly; affirm. [1/7 definitions]
professed openly admitted; acknowledged. [1/2 definitions]
put one's foot in one's mouth to say something regrettable, sometimes revealing one's own or another's secret by accident or revealing an opinion or assumption that should not have been stated openly.
put out to make (something) openly available for use or for taking. [1/11 definitions]
self-confessed openly stating or admitting to be such.