In a straightforward manner; openly, above board

ETYM Pref. a- + loud.
(Homonym: allowed).
Using the voice; not silently; SYN. out loud.

In an audible manner.

By open declaration; SYN. professedly.

1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part.
2. In common; familiary.

Admittedly, by confession

ETYM AS. openlice.
In an open way.

With pretense or intention to deceive.

1. By the public or the people generally
2. In a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly; SYN. publically, in public.

Unenclosed wasteland, forest, and pasture used in common by the community at large. Poor people have throughout history gathered fruit, nuts, wood, reeds, roots, game, and so on from common land; in dry regions of India, for example, the landless derive 20% of their annual income in this way, together with much of their food and fuel. Codes of conduct evolved to ensure that common resources were not depleted. But in the 20th century, in the Third World as elsewhere, much common land has been privatized or appropriated by the state, and what remains is overburdened by those dependent on it.

ETYM Spanish See Place.
1. A modern complex of shops; SYN. mall, center, shopping mall, shopping center.
2. A public square with room for pedestrians; SYN. place, piazza.

ETYM as. spoed success, swiftness, from spoewan to succeed; akin to Dutch spoed, Old High Germ. spuot success, spuot to succees, Skr. sphâ to increase, grow fat.
1. A rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; SYN. swiftness, fastness.
2. Changing location rapidly; SYN. speeding, hurrying, hastening.
3. Distance travelled per unit of time; SYN. velocity.
Prosperity; success.

To publicly disown former opinions or beliefs.

ETYM Cf. Old Fren. communage.
Property held in common.

1. Barren or uncultivated land
2. An ugly often devastated or barely inhabitable place or area
3. Something (as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying