The phrase "asked openly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a question or request that is made in a transparent or candid manner, without hesitation or secrecy.
Example: "During the meeting, she asked openly about the company's future plans, encouraging a transparent discussion among the team."
Alternatives: "inquired candidly" or "questioned frankly".
Other lawmakers asked openly hypocritical questions.
He is radical because he has asked openly for democracy.
Rather than the searches being kept secret from the resident deans, "they should've been asked openly," said Richard Thomas, a professor of classics.
But on this occasion the government has asked openly in writing for me to express my views which I did at the inflation report press conference, and I was asked if I would accept a telephone call by the deputy prime minister on the Saturday morning.
NBC has already asked openly gay figure skater Johnny Weir to be a commentator for the skating events.
How can you adopt?" were just some of the questions she asked openly in front of my son.
Across bone dry Arizona, voters and pollsters have begun to ask openly about a change that seemed nearly impossible not so long ago: could Democrats take the American west?
A former president and prime minister, the 70-year-old Mr Cossiga set conditions for handing Mr Prodi the parliamentary votes of his Democratic Union for the Republic; for example, Mr Prodi would have to declare that the alliance with the Communists was over, and he would have to ask openly for Mr Cossiga's support.
Maybe they will do what the plaintiff seeks implicitly and what some friend-of-the-court briefs on the plaintiff's side ask openly: use this case as a vehicle to revisit the Michigan case and sharply cut back on it or overrule it.
This was determined by asking openly about the emotions experienced, and the strength of this emotion.
Women asked her openly for life advice, their voices tinged with panic.
