I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a complete/total/outright lie (= something that is completely untrue )
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Of course the whole thing was a complete lie.
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She didn't want to tell her mother an outright lie.
a flat/outright refusal (= definite and direct )
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She had not anticipated a flat refusal.
an absolute/outright/clear majority (= a majority that has been won by more than half the votes )
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There was no party with an absolute majority in the House of Commons.
an outright ban (= a complete ban )
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an outright ban on gun ownership
be killed instantly/outright (= immediately )
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The driver was killed instantly.
deliberate/calculated/outright deceit
open/outright hostility (= hostility that is clearly shown )
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They eyed each other with open hostility.
outright (= clearly and completely )
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If one candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote, he will win the seat outright.
reject sth outright (= completely )
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He has not rejected the idea outright.
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■ NOUN
ban
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Ministers insist that voluntary agreements with the tobacco industry are more effective than outright bans .
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The San Francisco-based trade organization reports that 21 states have an outright ban on out-of-state shipments of alcoholic beverages.
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A number argued that an outright ban should be introduced on the holding of client money by sole practitioners.
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The proposal came amid fears that the Ministry of Agriculture might introduce tougher restrictions or even an outright ban .
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Eminent scientists are clamouring for an outright ban on all chlorine substances.
hostility
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Competition and struggle may be the watchwords but this does not necessarily imply outright hostility .
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From reluctant acceptance, the village mood was rapidly transformed into outright hostility .
lie
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Nothing so tempts us to believe outright lies and unfounded stories posing as science than the sensationalistic schlock therein.
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He got up and briefly stepped outside to avoid telling an outright lie .
majority
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Nearly three-quarters of voters, 71 percent, expect no party to win an outright majority .
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If it occurs on a sufficiently large scale, either main party might still win an outright majority .
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They've stayed that way because outright majority has been given with the help of the council's single independent.
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It will also be the first since 1979 in which none of the parties is expected to gain an outright majority .
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Neither man won an outright majority .
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Only a handful of polls since Christmas have given either party the lead they would need to secure an outright majority .
opposition
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This organization was one of outright opposition .
purchase
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Again, the undertaker offered two choices to the client: outright purchase of all the accoutrements or the hire thereof.
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Have you considered hire purchase and leasing as well as outright purchase?
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The phase is typically characterized by the outright purchase of the works in question.
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This is an exceptional facility and most shortages are relieved by outright purchases by the Bank, against same-day settlement.
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The total fee of 5,000 is in outright purchase of the copyright of the material.
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Most access equipment can be hired if outright purchase is not warranted.
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They say the trend is towards outright purchase now rather than leaseback.
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The company can provide televisions on contract rental, hire purchase or outright purchase.
rejection
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Heads responded to advisory views of good practice in different ways, ranging from unthinking conformity to outright rejection .
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Petitions may be either for the outright rejection of the order or its amendment.
victory
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Early polls show Zyuganov may come out ahead in first-round voting, but will fall short of outright victory .
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Often delay will serve the client just as well as outright victory .
winner
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Enter the new championship, with a complicated set of rules designed to promote an outright winner at the end of it.
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But the outright winner has to be the microwave.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an outright trade ban
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his outright opposition to the proposal
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gandhi rejects outright claims made concerning the superior or inferior status of religions.
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It would, however, be incorrect to deduce that in the nineteenth century only outright deception was commented upon.
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Only a handful of polls since Christmas have given either party the lead they would need to secure an outright majority.
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That will involve significant change from the separation, suspicion, and even outright confrontation that have existed for decades.
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The point is to avoid outright confrontation.
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This displeasure can range from mild disapproval to outright ostracism.
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Too bad the yarn is interwoven with illogic, inconsistency and outright balderdash.
II. adverb
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■ VERB
ask
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It seemed crazy that she couldn't ask outright - claim the relationship which was almost certainly hers.
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He knew that if she asked outright , he would tell her.
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When you want to know the answer to something, you ask outright .
buy
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You can either buy outright , or join in a coop ownership scheme.
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In addition to buying outright , Durbeck became an ace scrounger on the garage-sale, thrift-shop and flea-market circuits.
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Houses could be paid off gradually; paintings had to be bought outright .
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For years companies who have fleets of cars have used this method of payment instead of buying outright .
kill
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Some had been killed outright by flying shrapnel, others had been badly wounded and had died slowly.
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The Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended last fall that the project be killed outright .
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A total of 210 people were killed outright by the soldiers, another seventy-one died later and 173 were less seriously wounded.
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So how could a species slowly and randomly evolve the ability not to be killed outright ?
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Even if the prey is not killed outright , there is a greater chance that it will be incapacitated.
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But by a miracle he had not been killed outright , and was saved.
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Unless the Grand Theogonist is killed outright the Jade Griffon will enable him to sustain wounds which would kill an ordinary man.
reject
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Diplomatic negotiations were rejected outright as insufficiently forceful.
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Federal courthouses receive thousands of such pleas each year from state prisoners; virtually all are rejected outright .
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In November Fretilin offered the government unconditional peace talks, but the move was rejected outright by the government.
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He rejected outright the idea that he was a special case.
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Yet his proposals were denounced in the provinces, delayed in the Duma and rejected outright in the State Council.
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The changes required are not so great that it should be rejected outright .
win
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Clinton needs 2,145 delegates to win outright on the first Democratic Party ballot at the July convention.
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He insisted the polls indicated that the voters did not want either the Tories or Labour to win outright .
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He was killed outright when his car crashed at high speed.
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Kahn needs 50% plus one vote to win the primary outright .
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Most of the lawmakers rejected the idea outright .
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They laughed outright at my suggestion.
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And the owner of the Red Sox sold him outright to New York.
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But Dudaev would be foolish to spurn the offer outright .
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Don Juan de Borbón reacted with a statement published on 7 April, in which he rejected Franco's proposals outright .
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I mean she doesn't complain outright .
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If the city buys tickets outright , however, it will save an average of $ 4 per ticket.
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Two years later the itinerant returned to attack Garden outright for allowing laxity and not promoting the preaching of grace.
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While they could scarcely challenge Rome outright , neither could they defend what they did not believe.
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You can either buy outright , or join in a coop ownership scheme.