Adverb She won the competition outright. The painting is now owned outright by the museum. Their house was destroyed outright by the fire. I bought the car outright. Adjective I was surprised by their outright rejection of the idea.
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Due to a drop in consumption this year, Europe is on track to secure enough gas to avoid outright rationing this winter. Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022 Several Republican candidates who have attempted to court former President Donald Trump's base have either cast doubt or outright denied the result of the 2020 election. Katie Wadington, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022 Some politicians from the Green Party and other leftist groups have called for private jets to be banned outright. Nick Kostov, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022 Pryor was expected to compete with Williams for the No. 2 job, but the injury means the role will be Williams’ outright. Stephen Means, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2022 In the Netherlands, there is mounting government support to ban loot boxes outright. Jonathan Lee, Washington Post, 19 July 2022 And the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in July to ban drop boxes outright. Molly Stellino, USA TODAY, 14 July 2022 Later, Santa Cruz became the first city in the country to ban predictive policing outright. Libor Janystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2022 Bank of America is not outright calling for a recession in the United States. Matt Egan, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
Adjective
China’s approach may have helped forestall balance of payments crises or outright defaults that could have destabilized the world economy, as countries have been pummeled by the pandemic, high inflation and war in Ukraine. Jason Douglas, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022 Never mind that the front office will be heavily involved in, if not outright drive, roster decisions and pitching plans. Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022 Anti-LGBTQ politics has without question accelerated and shifted character this year to embrace outright political violence. Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2022 Lahiri missed a short eagle putt on the 18th hole that would’ve given him an outright victory. Cameron Jourdan, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2022 To be sure, the possibility of an outright acquittal for Kelly is likely very remote. Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022 Whispers of Viserys’s inaction in the Stepstones gives way to outright insults, but some have other forms of conquest on the brain. Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE, 4 Sep. 2022 Honk for Jesus is a fine, often funny movie about the moral hypocrisy of the church and an even better movie about a woman forced to endure looking like a fool, an outright clown, because of her husband. K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2022 Racist incidents included overhearing racist jokes, being subjected to stereotyping or comments about appearance, receiving racist remarks, or outright bullying and harassment. Zayn Nabbi, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022 See More