If the players and the coaches objected openly, they might have come off as ogres, or at least as not politically correct.

The party's leaders openly object to ending the death penalty for crimes against the state, a category that embraces a wide spectrum of political activity.

Though they cannot openly object to her presence, they find a thousand small ways to disconcert her and make things difficult.

After forty years, the Alturan people openly object to the reign of the Germanic Archibaldo.

And they added that when they did object openly to his decisions, he frequently overruled them.

Destrin had hummphed at my suggestion, coughed some more, but hadn't openly objected.

Long enough, evidently, that now no one openly objected to his ideas.

"I think the Government sees it cannot openly object to the elections," a Western diplomat said.

In Plato's dialogue the Republic, Socrates openly objected to the democracy that ran Athens during his adult life.

To openly object to the re-opening was not so much dangerous now as it was extremely awkward, impolite in its extended sense of impolitic.