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Example sentences for: outright

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But the commissioners decided not to ask Congress to ban human-embryo cloning outright, reportedly because they trust Congress even less than they trust scientists.
A survey reported that the industry will force Medicare recipients to chip in for treatment and may ditch 250,000 recipients outright.
In so doing, he shows us that a great deal of sadism, animality, and outright lust can lurk behind people's anodyne professions that they just want to "uphold the law" or "maintain a level of decency."
Short of cases of outright lying (à la Janet Cooke or Stephen Glass), I cannot recall reporters so viciously going after one of their own.
After weeks of buildup, critics are ambivalent about Oprah Winfrey's adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel: "[T]he movie is undeniably a labor of devotion and intelligence, but, in the end, a labor is just what it is" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The film gets a few outright raves, and Oprah's performance is universally lauded.