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Example sentences for: straight-out

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

I have never spoken to a child of a mobster who said, straight-out, yeah, my father's a made man, and I'm not going to cover-up for him anymore.
For another, it's hard to make any changes that don't create a huge drop in revenues and/or even worse inequities: for instance, eliminating the marriage penalty straight-out would simply lower the tax rates on most wealthier households.
It straight-out says "The Democratic National Committee quietly transferred at least $32 million to state Democratic parties in the last election as part of an elaborate plan to spend more money than federal election law appeared to allow on a massive advertising campaign that indirectly helped re-elect President Clinton."