outright
Speech parts
1. outright - Adjective
2. outright - Verb
3. outright - Adverb
5. outright - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.
Completely; utterly.
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he was killed outright
she asked him outright for a divorce
buy outright
A black newspaper described the scene: :" 'Six killed and five wounded' is what the daily papers here say, but from an eye witness to the whole transaction we learn that no less than thirty-five Negroes were killed outright.
ACLU's report says the worst technology should be rejected outright, such as apps that track individual movements via satellite-based GPS technology and feed sensitive personal data into centralised government databases.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, accused the United States on Monday of “outright political repression” of Chinese scholars when asked at a news conference in Beijing about reports of detention threats made by Chinese officials.