To put it bluntly, she’s not up to the job.bluntlyblunt‧ly /ˈblʌntli/ ●○○ adverb 
‘You’re drunk,’ she said bluntly. To put it bluntly, she’s not up to the job.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Several people bluntly questioned his ability to do the job.
- A much more important factor is, to put it bluntly, racism.
- Food on some all-inclusive packages can, to put it bluntly, be mediocre.
- Put bluntly, while achievement has improved, there is no cause for mass rejoicing.
- She says bluntly what she thinks about landowners, the Royal Family, social injustice and access to the hills.
- The Crowland chronicler goes further and states bluntly that Bourgchier was compelled to play his part.
- To put it bluntly, nobody cares about strings of nucleic acids at all!
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY To put it bluntly, she’s not up to the job.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
speaking in a direct honest way that sometimes upsets people: To put it bluntly, she’s not up to the job. (=in a direct way that may offend people)· I would put it more bluntly. I think you are wallowing in self-pity.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB· Yevtushenko asked bluntly whether this concert idea of mine was not a trap to get him into trouble.
· That is a statutory offence or, more bluntly put, a criminal offence.· Put bluntly, while achievement has improved, there is no cause for mass rejoicing.
· She says bluntly what she thinks about landowners, the Royal Family, social injustice and access to the hills.· Bogdanovich also says bluntly that living-room workouts are not his first choice.· Mittleholzer says bluntly, ` the local papers were of no interest to me so far as my main objective was concerned.
· It was a lame excuse, and I bluntly told him that he owed it to posterity to relate his story.
‘You’re drunk,’ she said bluntly. To put it bluntly, she’s not up to the job.