outright

[Out·right`]

If you do something outright, you do it in a wholehearted, unrestricted way. If you declare outright that you’re never eating another cupcake, that’s the end of that. If you eat one anyway, you told an outright lie.

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Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.

Adjective S.
without reservation or exception

Adverb
without any delay; "he was killed outright"

Adverb
without reservation or concealment; "she asked him outright for a divorce"

Adverb
without restrictions or stipulations or further payments; "buy outright"


adv.
Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.

adv.
Completely; utterly.


Outright

Out"right` , adv. 1. Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright. 2. Completely; utterly. Cardinal Manning.

Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.

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Usage Examples

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

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