Example sentences for: outright

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

  • 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."

  • Had he marched toward Prague at that time, they would have arrested him--or assassinated him outright.

  • By paying the production costs of I Got the Hook-Up out of his own pocket and retaining ownership of it, he stands to make at least twice as much as he would have if he had taken Miramax's $5 million offer to buy it outright.

  • Here, the tradition of scholastic inquiry has often evolved into a spirit of protest and outright revolt before subsiding into a lifelong skepticism.

  • Like Solana in his interview with La Stampa ,Western European newspapers stand united behind NATO's outright rejection of Milosevic's cease-fire offer, and the idea of sending in ground troops seems to be gathering ever stronger support.


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