Example sentences for: outright

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

  • Abolishing the second union-wide chamber outright would go against what a lot of people assume to be the spirit of the times.

  • Lloyd George himself wanted to get rid of the thing, but he had to settle for the Parliament Act of 1911, which scaled the Lords' power down from being able to kill legislation outright to being able to delay it for two years (reduced to one year in, I think, 1940).

  • Messinger's embarrassing failure to win the primary outright means she has to campaign against Sharpton without alienating the blacks she'll need in a general election against Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

  • Putting outright, downright grammatical solecisms aside, it would be pertinent to reiterate my own attitude toward usage: as a linguist, I regard usage clinically and would no more criticize a writer or a speaker of any kind of English for “mistakes” than a doctor would criticize a patient for contracting appendicitis or the Malay waste-away; on the other hand, as a writer (albeit a poor one), I attend to matters of style (which includes usage and grammar, of course), not only in others' writing but my own.

  • It's hard to imagine him praising every Steven Spielberg flick that comes his way, but it's hard to imagine him dismissing them outright either.


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