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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.





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"Outright" Quotes from Famous Books



... spring increases, and which, carrying the soil down to the river, is gradually clogging the river's flow, diverting the muddy water towards the marshes, and converting those marshes into a lagoon outright. The fissure in question is named "The Great Ravine," and has its steep flanks so overgrown with chestnuts and laburnums that even in summertime its recesses are cool and moist, and so serve as a convenient trysting place for ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky
... they are not getting on together, Alexander's first lessons with you you find are largely occupied in getting your mind—your terrible and beautiful mind which does such queer things to you, to back away. What he really wants of you is to have you let him make a present to you outright of certain new psycho-physical experiences, which he cannot possibly get in, if you insist on slipping yours in each time instead. So he keeps working on you, you all the while trying to help in soul and body by being as much like putty—a kind of transcendental putty as you can, or as you dare, ...
— The Ghost in the White House • Gerald Stanley Lee
... horrid, selfish thing! In every one of your letters you have hinted and hinted and hinted that we should ask Rona for Christmas. You wouldn't say it outright until you were sure I wanted it. That was just the rub. I didn't want it. I'm afraid even now I don't quite. I've had her all the term, and I thought it would be so blissful to be without her for four whole weeks, and have you and Father ...
— For the Sake of the School • Angela Brazil
... The lassie said "No!" outright. Nothing could get her to say anything else; so the man went out and settled it with the White Bear that he should come again the next Thursday evening and get an answer. Meantime he talked his daughter over, and kept on telling her of ...
— East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Old Tales from the North • Peter Christen Asbjornsen
... know, it seemed to come home to everyone in an instant that there was really some dreadful thing coming down the passage. There was a mad rush to get away and even old Captain Hisgins gave back with the butler and the footmen. Beaumont fainted outright, as I found afterward, for he had been badly mauled. I just flattened back against the wall, kneeling as I was, too stupid and dazed even to run. And almost in the same instant the ponderous hoof falls sounded close to me and seeming to shake the solid ...
— Carnacki, The Ghost Finder • William Hope Hodgson


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