WordNet
adv. without question and beyond doubt; "it was decidedly too expensive"; "she told him off in spades"; "by all odds they should win" [syn: decidedly, unquestionably, emphatically, definitely, in spades]
Usage examples of "by all odds".
They're one of the biggest money-lending firms in the country and by all odds the most ruthless.
She was twentyone, blond, by all odds the best-looking girl within five hundred mites, and her effect on the other unmarried men had been explosive.
It is the largest unbroken forest in Italy, and by all odds the most poetic in itself and its associations.
It was by all odds the longest, wettest and windiest hundred feet that I'd ever walked.
I would lose, not a point, but my life--and I knew, long before the end of that first long phrase, that my life was what I was about to lose, by all odds.