out-and-out

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ADJECTIVE
  1. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
    sheer stupidity
    a downright lie
    got the job through sheer persistence
    out-and-out mayhem
    many right-down vices
    a rank outsider
    absolute freedom
    an absolute dimwit
    an out-and-out lie
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How To Use out-and-out In A Sentence

  • Dr. Mark Stegeman's character assassination of our MAS department teachers is most troubling to me and I feel it is out-and-out evil," Gonzalez said. Jeff Biggers: Groundswell Calls for School Board President Resignation in Arizona Ethnic Studies Debacle
  • This trend celebrates the glitz, glamour and out-and-out luxury enjoyed by the privileged few in pre-revolutionary Russia.
  • Because the movie is too lazy to set up some grifts, Reilly and Luna are established as out-and-out thieves.
  • Their actions leave open the further question: when does out-and-out prevarication shade off into self-deception and denial?
  • an out-and-out lie
  • A wild young Helen Keller, blind, deaf and struggling with her teacher Annie Sullivan in a battle of wills that Penn staged as an out-and-out slugfest. 'Bonnie And Clyde' Director Arthur Penn, 1922-2010
  • He didn't advise out-and-out celibacy but he cautioned that erotic energy can be surrendered too freely during this or that sort of romp.
  • With some lenders, borrowers who are past due and whose home values have suffered large losses could qualify for a principal deferment, where a chunk of the mortgage is set aside to be paid later, or out-and-out forgiveness of part of the loan. Help for Some Underwater Homeowners
  • That's an out-and-out lie!
  • Maybe attacker is not the right word to describe Totti, he is an out-and-out goalscorer, a pure striker.
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