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• She's gotta do that song, she outright smokes when she hits the refrain!From the entry smoke
• In these situations, there is no bright line between aggressive play and outright cheating.From the entry bright line
• Because of the ease of collusion, particularly price fixing, duopolies and oligopolies easily produce outcomes as bad for the general public as outright monopolies.From the entry oligopoly
• I cannot say that there were any outright lies in the editorial, but it does play fast and loose with the truth.From the entry play fast and loose
• Most of the magazine’s writers are too embarrassed to defend Trump’s behavior outright.2020 September 15, Jonathan Chait, “National Review Has Elevated Anti-Anti-Trumpism to an Art Form”, in Intelligencer, archived from the…. From the entry anti-Trumpism
• Early on, the film even blunders into outright hackwork, employing laughably literal-minded needle drops.2019 July 3, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in AV Club…. From the entry hackwork
• Outright banning fraternities, however, is a tough move for a university president to make.2014 April 17, Allie Jones, “After Years of Bad Press, the Great Fraternity Crackdown Is Here”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic…. From the entry sig
• Well, I’ll be danfangled, my mother nodded, for she could never be persuaded to curse outright.2010, Esterházy, Péter,, Not art : a novel, page 178. From the entry danfangled
• Schmidt is arguing that the outright ban on selling and distributing raw milk is "overbroad legislation."2009 January 31, Megan Ogilvie, “Raw milk poses risk, court told”, in Toronto Star. From the entry overbroad
• Many college students now expect to sample, if not outright pirate, movies, music, software, and TV programs.2007, Diane Kresh, Council on Library, Information Resources, The Whole Digital Library Handbook, page 85. From the entry pirate
• Then CBS fired them outright this summer as part of a national purge.2006, Chicago, volume 55, numbers 10-12, page 30. From the entry jockless
• Artists should always view contracts referring to overcall recordings with care, if not outright suspicion.2005, Richard Schulenberg, Legal Aspects of the Music Industry: An Insider's View, page 47. From the entry overcall
• Furthermore, nutria engage in the outright destruction of muskrat lodges to create nesting habitat for themselves.2000, National Wetlands Newsletter, Volumes 22-23, Environmental Law Institute, page 8. From the entry nutria
• Carlyle resisted the temptation to laugh outright, but mordacity lurked in his voice.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry mordacity
• I avowed outright my entire disbelief in the whole scheme of revealed religion.1909, H. G. Wells, chapter 2, in Tono Bungay. From the entry revealed religion
• This is outright embarrassing,” Candace Owens wrote on X.2025 July 16, Ryan Bort and Asawin Suebsaeng, quoting Candace Owens, “Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga…. From the entry embarrassing
• The accusations towards me spiraled into outright falsehoods quickly.2025 April 25, Leah Hope Ajmani, Talia Bhatt, Michael Ann DeVito, “Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering…. From the entry anti-transmasculinity
• Scots was not ‘banned’ outright — impossible anyway with so many Scots-speaking teachers but, like Gaelic, marginalised by omission.2023, Clive Young, “chapter three: From Union to Devolution”, in Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Luath…. From the entry omission
• My humblebrag is thus met with the positive affirmation I was seeking but could not successfully achieve through outright bragging.2019, Karen Stohr, Minding the Gap: Moral Ideals and Moral Improvement, Oxford University Press, page 180. From the entry humblebrag
• The partner´s feelings sway from joy because of their partner´s sobriety through doubt whether they´ll make it to outright incredulosity.2015 November, Ľuba Pavelová, Petra Mišáková, “Strategies of Social Work in Families with an Addicted Member”, in Proceedings of the 4th…. From the entry incredulosity
• In fact someone outright accused me of being a “she-bagger”.2015 June 28, Sophie Warnes, “On “manspreading” & “she-bagging””, in Medium, archived from the original on 25 May 2022. From the entry she-bagger
• Usually the whistleblower is not fired outright.2012, Frederick D. Lipman, Whistleblowers, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry whistle-blower
• And to this end we all hope for a weaker opponent, but in the tournaments there are no outright weakies.2010, John Healy, Coffeehouse Chess Tactics: An Astonishing Trip Into the World of Competitive Chess, Alkmaar, Netherlands: New In Chess…. From the entry weakie
• Jauhar’s own psychological adventure, a quasireligious journey from agnosticism to robust faith, with occasional dips into outright atheism.2008 January 11, William Grimes, “A Physician Caught Trying to Heal Himself”, in New York Times. From the entry quasireligious
• If so, this piece of zoogony is not myth or outright speculation, but is based, however loosely, on observational knowledge.2008, Andrew Gregory, Ancient Greek Cosmogony. From the entry zoogony
• And collusion is more than angle-shooting -- it's outright cheating.2006, Randy Burgess, Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells: Devastate Opponents by Reading Body Language, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry angle-shooting
• But to a hyperdefensive party, the policies that Bach advocated were controversial and potentially dangerous and therefore were rejected outright.2001, Zachary Abuza, Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietnam, page 81. From the entry hyperdefensive
• How can one explain the hypocrisy, chop logic and outright lying now being mustered daily in defence of hunting with hounds?2000 December 28, David McKie, “Special report: the hunting debate”, in The Guardian, retrieved 06 Jun 2008. From the entry chop logic

Meaning of outright

1. adverb Wholly; completely; entirely.
2. adverb Openly and without reservation; unreservedly.
3. adverb At once.

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How do you use outright in a sentence?

Outright is used as an adverb, adjective and verb. For example: “I refute those allegations outright.”

What is a short sentence with outright?

“We achieved outright domination.”

What does outright mean?

Outright means wholly; completely; entirely.