Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Straightforward; blunt.
- adjective Complete; unmitigated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Outand-out; straight: as, straight-out Republicans.
- noun In United States politics, one who votes a straight or strictly party ticket; a thorough partizan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Colloq. U.S. Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Acting without
concealment ,obliquity , orcompromise . - adjective
unqualified ;thoroughgoing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without reservation or exception
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Examples
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But the events of the last two weeks have highlighted the strategy, revealing so many GOP assertions as being straight-out wrong.
Mitchell Bard: It's Been a Bad Week for GOP Lies About Obama Mitchell Bard 2011
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Mitt Romney tried to scratch Gingrich's armour but straight-out attack is not his natural métier.
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That while the Republicans were straight-out lying Politfact's top lie of 2009 when they told tales of death panels and policies to discontinue care to seniors, cuts to Medicare and Social Security would actually send countless senior citizens into desperate financial situations.
Mitchell Bard: The Debt Ceiling "Compromise" Is a Total Democratic Capitulation to the GOP Mitchell Bard 2011
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But the events of the last two weeks have highlighted the strategy, revealing so many GOP assertions as being straight-out wrong.
Mitchell Bard: It's Been a Bad Week for GOP Lies About Obama Mitchell Bard 2011
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And I'm not at all sure how successful I am as a straight-out polemicist either.
Roger Smith: It's Too Late for Troy Davis, But It's Not Too Late for Us Roger Smith 2011
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That while the Republicans were straight-out lying Politfact's top lie of 2009 when they told tales of death panels and policies to discontinue care to seniors, cuts to Medicare and Social Security would actually send countless senior citizens into desperate financial situations.
Mitchell Bard: The Debt Ceiling "Compromise" Is a Total Democratic Capitulation to the GOP Mitchell Bard 2011
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That while the Republicans were straight-out lying Politfact's top lie of 2009 when they told tales of death panels and policies to discontinue care to seniors, cuts to Medicare and Social Security would actually send countless senior citizens into desperate financial situations.
Mitchell Bard: The Debt Ceiling "Compromise" Is a Total Democratic Capitulation to the GOP Mitchell Bard 2011
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That while the Republicans were straight-out lying Politfact's top lie of 2009 when they told tales of death panels and policies to discontinue care to seniors, cuts to Medicare and Social Security would actually send countless senior citizens into desperate financial situations.
Mitchell Bard: The Debt Ceiling "Compromise" Is a Total Democratic Capitulation to the GOP Mitchell Bard 2011
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That while the Republicans were straight-out lying Politfact's top lie of 2009 when they told tales of death panels and policies to discontinue care to seniors, cuts to Medicare and Social Security would actually send countless senior citizens into desperate financial situations.
Mitchell Bard: The Debt Ceiling "Compromise" Is a Total Democratic Capitulation to the GOP Mitchell Bard 2011
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And I'm not at all sure how successful I am as a straight-out polemicist either.
Roger Smith: It's Too Late for Troy Davis, But It's Not Too Late for Us Roger Smith 2011
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