Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Complete; thoroughgoing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thorough; thorough-paced; absolute; genuine; complete; unqualified: as, an out-and-out swindle.
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out and out , under out, adv.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without any reservation or disguise; downright; plain; unqualified; absolute.
- adverb Completely; wholly; openly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective idiomatic
Complete ,utter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
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Examples
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A wild young Helen Keller, blind, deaf and struggling with her teacher Annie Sullivan in a battle of wills that Penn staged as an out-and-out slugfest.
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And opponents have spread some out-and-out lies, like the false notion that CRA forced banks to make bad loans that helped bring about the housing crash and recession.
Preeti Vissa: Fight Brewing Over the Best Law You've Never Heard of Preeti Vissa 2010
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With some lenders, borrowers who are past due and whose home values have suffered large losses could qualify for a principal deferment, where a chunk of the mortgage is set aside to be paid later, or out-and-out forgiveness of part of the loan.
Help for Some Underwater Homeowners Cristina Lourosa-Ricardo 2011
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A wild young Helen Keller, blind, deaf and struggling with her teacher Annie Sullivan in a battle of wills that Penn staged as an out-and-out slugfest.
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A wild young Helen Keller, blind, deaf and struggling with her teacher Annie Sullivan in a battle of wills that Penn staged as an out-and-out slugfest.
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"Dr. Mark Stegeman's character assassination of our MAS department teachers is most troubling to me and I feel it is out-and-out evil," Gonzalez said.
Jeff Biggers: Groundswell Calls for School Board President Resignation in Arizona Ethnic Studies Debacle Jeff Biggers 2011
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Not much -- any list of the Thirteen Best Books is pretty random and thus useless and I have to wonder whether, in including the Hardy Boys, he means the ones he read as a lad (nostalgia time) or the ones currently published (out-and-out lame).
Speaking as one old fart to another Roger Sutton 2009
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This guy is not only a gutless loser but an out-and-out moron.
There should be a word for ‘blustering cowardice.’ Hmm. ‘Graysonian?’ - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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"Dr. Mark Stegeman's character assassination of our MAS department teachers is most troubling to me and I feel it is out-and-out evil," Gonzalez said.
Jeff Biggers: Groundswell Calls for School Board President Resignation in Arizona Ethnic Studies Debacle Jeff Biggers 2011
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A wild young Helen Keller, blind, deaf and struggling with her teacher Annie Sullivan in a battle of wills that Penn staged as an out-and-out slugfest.
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