How to Use out-and-out in a Sentence

out-and-out

adjective
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  • But out-and-out defamation would seem to be off the table.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2023
  • Moreover, the three-chair turn performed the number with dazzling control and an out-and-out joy that warmed even my cold, cold heart.
    — Charlie Mason, TVLine, 14 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Four of those series involve rich white women and some kind of death shrouded in suspicion, if not an out-and-out murder mystery.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 13 Sep. 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
  • With Hollywood still one of the top donors to the Democrats, those conversations alternate from cautious optimism to dismay to out-and-out anger.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • When playing with only two out-and-out forwards, Bellingham will have more freedom in attack and can increase his attacking stats.
    — Guillermo Rai, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 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
  • Presumably, Conrad was talking not to out-and-out bigots but to well-meaning liberal folks who would never dream of taking an identity that wasn’t theirs.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • But across Europe, radical right-wingers – from authoritarian-minded populists to out-and-out Nazis – are wielding increasing influence on mainstream parties.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2024
  • An interesting collection of white government officials, Black entrepreneurs, promoters and, frankly, out-and-out hustlers came together to put together this unsanctioned boxing match.
    — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024

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