Example sentences for: outright

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

  • We all have learned recently, for example, that even outright lying under oath in a deposition for a civil case is the kind of thing that an ordinary citizen apparently does not often get prosecuted for (though it's not clear why not--especially when the liar is the defendant in the case).

  • However, the resolution was softened to the point of ambiguity by the dissent (and eventual abstention) of Russia and China; the NYT says the UNSC resolution "skirts an outright threat to use force."

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

  • A survey reported that the industry will force Medicare recipients to chip in for treatment and may ditch 250,000 recipients outright.

  • 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).


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