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Outright   /ˈaʊtrˈaɪt/   Listen
adjective
outright  adj.  Downright; plain; unqualified; utter; straight-out; as, an outright lie.
Synonyms: flat-out, out-and-out.



adverb
outright  adv.  
1.
Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.
2.
Completely; utterly.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Outright" Quotes from Famous Books



... exclaimed the damsel, with a loud laugh, "you be a downright Englisher, sure enough. I should like to see a young lady engage by the year in America! I hope I shall get a husband before many months, or I expect I shall be an outright old maid, for I be most seventeen already; besides, mayhap I may want to go to school. You must just give me a dollar and half a week, and mother's slave, Phillis, must come over once a week, I expect, from t'other side the water, to help me clean." I agreed to the ...
— Domestic Manners of the Americans • Fanny Trollope

... first read this through silently, and now in reading it a second time aloud to Somerset her voice faltered, and she wept outright. 'I had been expecting her to live with us always,' she said through her tears, 'and to think she should have decided ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy

... was in a mood to quarrel with him outright. But he didn't mean to let her. With those eyes—in such a fire—she was really splendid. How she had ...
— Elizabeth's Campaign • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... before him, one after another, to see what they contained. Say, good M'Choakumchild. When from thy boiling store thou shalt fill each jar brim-full, by-and-by, dost thou think that then wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within—or sometimes only ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various

... we were cut off from the provinces. The higher authorities of the railroads, post office and telegraph were against us. The army committees, the municipalities, the zemstvos continued to bombard the Smolny with threatening telegrams in which they declared outright war upon us and promised to sweep the insurgents out within a short time. Our telegrams, decrees and explanations did not reach the provinces, for the Petrograd Telegraph Agency refused to serve us. In this atmosphere, created by the isolation of the ...
— From October to Brest-Litovsk • Leon Trotzky


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