This book is, to put it baldly, an uneven work.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a bald head; a bald person. ,a bald mountain. ,a bald prose style. ,a bald lie. ,the bald eagle.    From Dictionary.com. 

He spoke the word baldly, looking away from the Parson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Bread] Reference

Quath gasped, to see such things so baldly stated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tides Of Light]

“I cannot leave at this juncture,” it said baldly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

You're afraid Toni will jump at me -- to put it baldly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Soul] Reference

He introduced himself baldly; he might have been saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traders] Reference

Evidently to put forth truths so baldly was inartistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suzanna Stirs the Fire] Reference

The official position of the service was baldly stated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference

“Caesar, what happened in the east?” she asked baldly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

Stated baldly like that, the thing doesn't read very well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference

“I came here for the solitude,” she baldly informed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perfect Lover]

She named the sum baldly, without any explanation or apology.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Mistress]

To put it out there, just broadly -- baldly -- is astonishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2005] Reference

And I'm sorry to put it so baldly, but that's exactly what it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2009] Reference

But I will answer you on this occasion just as bluntly and baldly.    From Wordnik.com.  [L.P.M. : the end of the Great War] Reference

I was shocked that he would bargain so baldly, and distrustful of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

And Vice President Cheney went ahead and blandly and baldly stated it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2004] Reference

"I'm here to discuss employee attrition, not turnover," I said baldly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perseus Spur]

"" He used his status as the patriarch in a baldly partisan fashion. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Clinton Won] Reference

She refocused and he baldly asked, “Will you have an affair with me?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ideal Bride]

Comments like that, baldly political, divide us and hurt the war on terror.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2006] Reference

'He told me to lay off you, as you'd saved his life,' she announced baldly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Longshot]

'He wanted to know if I was marrying you for your money,' she announced baldly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marriage At A Price]

Stated so baldly, in austere and objective lines, the phrases had a certain power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tides Of Light]

In the latter poem the argument for the poet's moral supremacy is baldly set forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference

Some observers accuse Washington of baldly encouraging rivalry between the two camps.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Back to the Stone Age'] Reference

Col. Boucher has stated the case baldly and so simply that every one can understand it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference

Quath could preen in the warrens, displaying her addition without baldly announcing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tides Of Light]

Gizmodo baldly states it “should have been euthanized” before it hit store shelves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mediocrity, thy name is Nuvifone] Reference

Hawthorne, is usually too baldly didactic to attain or hold a high place in literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference

These were stated baldly, briefly, but for that very quality they rang luridly dramatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shield of Silence] Reference

Or, put more baldly, I do not think either Fox News or The New York Times runs the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy Is a Pesky Thing] Reference

Then he decided on keeping up his end baldly, as that had seemed to have the best effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground] Reference

As he heard his name uttered the thought rushed into his mind how baldly and badly it sounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

Summed up it comes to this really, and I give it now vulgarly, baldly, boldly, and once for all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

And when Hawke entered she looked him straight in the eye and said baldly, ‘There is no baby.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich Man's Royal Mistress]

He turns cabinet members away from the Oval Office and baldly accuses them of leaking to the press.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Air Sununu' Flap] Reference

Finally, with a minute shrug, she said baldly, “What we have in mind is a change of management.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder to Go]

I am anxious to present my case as baldly, and with as little appearance of exaggeration as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference