Wondering how to use Outright in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as unlimited or unqualified.
Outright meaning
- Wholly; completely; entirely.
- Openly and without reservation.
- At once.
Synonyms of Outright
Using Outright
- The main meaning on this page is: Wholly; completely; entirely. | Openly and without reservation. | At once.
- Useful related words include: straight-out, unlimited, unqualified, instantaneously.
- In the example corpus, outright often appears in combinations such as: an outright, and outright, or outright.
Context around Outright
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Outright
- In this selection, "outright" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, first, primary, expressed, ban, victory and eastern stand out and add context to how "outright" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 178 an outright bet on and act or outright indifferent to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "outright" sits close to words such as awesome, firmly and superman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with outright
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But other issues make outright bans a thornier question. (9 words)
But outright sales are still doing pretty well,” he said. (10 words)
Although not all diseases will outright kill their hosts, some can dramatically affect host populations. (15 words)
As opposed to an outright position where both names are on the long side and there would be a profit and loss offset, a negative correlation between the two names can cause this distortion where both the long and short legs are losing value. (44 words)
Arroyo was among the three councilors who expressed outright opposition to the mayor’s anti-encampment ordinance, which Wu proposed in late August as part of her three-pronged plan for tackling increased crime in the Mass and Cass zone. (40 words)
Although the number of abortions dropped to almost nothing in the fourteen states that outright ban them during pregnancy, a national poll indicated that the average monthly number of abortions had increased marginally after the Dobbs verdict. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Yet, the president claimed an outright victory late Sunday, telling supporters that the votes still to be counted — largely from rural areas where he is most popular — would be enough to give him an outright victory.
The win gives Kiel the outright Eastern Wisconsin Conference championship, it’s first outright crown since 1984.
After also being backed by Mitt Romney, whose 2008 White House run she had supported, Haley nearly won the GOP primary outright and was victorious in the runoff.
A large part of the game's charm comes from its origin characters like Wyll and Shadowheart, optional companions like Minthara and Halsin, and outright antagonists like Gortash.
Although not all diseases will outright kill their hosts, some can dramatically affect host populations.
Although the number of abortions dropped to almost nothing in the fourteen states that outright ban them during pregnancy, a national poll indicated that the average monthly number of abortions had increased marginally after the Dobbs verdict.
Another bill amounts to an outright ban -- the Anti-Social CCP Act -- and is sponsored by Republican Mike Gallagher, Wis., and Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi, Calif., leaders of the subcommittee on China competition.
An outright ban on XL bully dogs probably makes people feel more safe than a high tax that makes the dogs rare but not illegal.
Arroyo was among the three councilors who expressed outright opposition to the mayor’s anti-encampment ordinance, which Wu proposed in late August as part of her three-pronged plan for tackling increased crime in the Mass and Cass zone.
As opposed to an outright position where both names are on the long side and there would be a profit and loss offset, a negative correlation between the two names can cause this distortion where both the long and short legs are losing value.
As well as her chilling position on immigration, Suella Braverman is slow to act or outright indifferent to the issues facing women.
At -178, an outright bet on Magny is probably the safest wager, but Rowe by KO/TKO is pretty tempting at +420.
At worst, he’s an outright hostile being that wants to rob Billy’s and his siblings’ magic for himself.
A USC win would cause the teams to share the title, while a Utes win would give them the title outright.
A win in either of their final two games – and, remember, they host last-place Wyoming on March 4 – gets them the outright title.
Betano customers can wager on Premier League games or long-term markets, i.e. who will be the outright league winner.
But even Bowman stopped short of outright calling for a further increase in the policy rate.
But it’s harder to argue that voters should believe the economy is outright terrible, even after accounting for inflation.
But other issues make outright bans a thornier question.
But outright sales are still doing pretty well,” he said.
Common combinations with outright
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an outright 33×
- and outright 15×
- or outright 14×
- outright ban 9×
- the outright 8×
- to outright 7×
- not outright 6×
- of outright 5×
- outright lies 5×
- outright victory 4×