How to Use out-and-out in a Sentence

out-and-out

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• But out-and-out defamation would seem to be off the table.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2023
• Worse, others are out-and-out scammers, according to the agency.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2023
• In recent seasons, the Red Devils have struggled to sign an out-and-out winger for the right hand side that has lived up to expectations.
  — Liam Canning, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• In short, the latest science suggests that chicken soup — though not an out-and-out cure for colds and flu — really helps with healing.
  — Colby Teeman, Assistant Professor Of Dietetics and Nutrition, University Of Dayton, Fortune Well, 21 Oct. 2023
• The team felt that copyrighting the book’s compilation would provide peace of mind against out-and-out reproduction of the work.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2024
• And others said that happiness was a matter of out-and-out struggle, which would last eternally. . .
  — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• And for audiences of any age, there is something about out-and-out, unapologetic silliness that forms a rebuke to the ordinary.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• According to teens who have been rescued from one of these camps, children are being subjected to out-and-out brainwashing.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 17 Feb. 2024
• Unlike some companies, however, platform sharing at VW-Audi doesn't mean out-and-out cloning.
  — Tony Swan, Car and Driver, 3 June 2023
• Director Elizabeth Banks, working from an all-over-the-place script by Jimmy Warden, can’t decide if the film is a dark comedy, a gross-out comedy, a crime drama or an out-and-out horror film.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
• Conservatives need to reject an approach that meets informal chilling of speech with out-and-out government censorship.
  — Suzanne Nossel, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
• Biden administration officials have stressed that despite current tension, China is a competitor rather than an out-and-out enemy.
  — Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner, 13 Nov. 2023
• Conservatives, especially, say that American institutions of higher education have become hostile to their ideas to the point of out-and-out censure.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2023
• One reason for these divergent results is that New Hampshire primary voters are less likely to identify as out-and-out Republicans than Iowa caucusgoers.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 22 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024