ADJECTIVE
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close enough to go straight to the target
a point-blank shot
point-blank range -
characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
a forthright approach to the problem
a point-blank accusation
forthright criticism
tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank
it is possible to be outspoken without being rude
blunt talking and straight shooting
a blunt New England farmer
I gave them my candid opinion
plainspoken and to the point
ADVERB
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in a direct and unequivocal manner
I asked him point-blank whether he wanted the job
How To Use point-blank In A Sentence
- A few minutes before the sunset and without firing any warning shots in the air or without prior effort to disperse the crowds gathered there, fire was opened from point-blank range at the assemblage.
- Even if it's yes, given that I am asked such a point-blank question at a volume audible to the other colleagues, I have to keep up the straight face, put on the steady voice, maintain the poise and give a negative answer.
- She pulled away at the last second, firing one, two, three shots point-blank into my side.
- Too, of course, the stab from a shorter distance at closer range, point-blank range, so to speak, is likely to be more accurate. Cinnamon Roll
- She fired point-blank at his chest.
- And according to Helen Donovan, it's been made all the more difficult by the point-blank refusal to establish an International Crimes Tribunal.
- Then in '82 there had been the Egyptian garboil I mentioned a moment ago; Joe Wolseley had asked for me point-blank, and with the press applauding and the Queen approving and Elspeth bursting into tears as I rogered her farewell, what the blazes could I do but fall in? Watershed
- The troubles in Limerick city continue with the point-blank shooting of a 30-year-old in Moyross by two masked gunmen.
- ‘Then they told me that they wanted to ‘age’ the photographs of the man so I refused point-blank to let them have them.’
- I can't think of many people who could get shot at point-blank range and turn it into a positive. The Sun
