Example sentences for: outright

How can you use “outright” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It bothers most of us that not all language use is fair or ethical, that it may be deceptive or an outright lie, or what we perceive as a mistake or usage error.

  • Indifferent reviews for the second live-action version of a Jay Ward cartoon to star Brendan Fraser (the first being George of the Jungle ). It's a "genial" film with "lots of broad slapstick humor that kids like and adults wince at" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few critics are outright irritated--it "disappoints in every way possible," says Kenneth Turan (the Los Angeles Times )--but most are just mildly annoyed.

  • Our doctors attended medical school with the aid of federally guaranteed student loans or outright grants.

  • I suspect that the word has long existed in a netherworld between interjectional utility and outright put-on.

  • All but one of Yardeni's "great or terrible" ratings fall in the "great" category; the only movie Yardeni appears to have outright hated in recent years was Boogie Nights ,* a film that Chatterbox would assign at least one plus sign.


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