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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
categorically
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
categorically/unequivocally reject (=in a definite way, leaving no doubt)
▪ We categorically reject their argument.
flatly/categorically deny sth (=very definitely and directly)
▪ In the interview, he flatly denied that charge.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
deny
▪ Indeed, he had categorically denied that there was any danger.
▪ As he did when he first took the stand in November, Simpson categorically denied ever hitting or punching Nicole.
▪ We categorically deny that we have ever cheated or tampered illegally with any match ball in any game during our careers.
state
▪ He stated categorically that he had no doubts that the parents in this case were innocent.
▪ Summing up, I can state categorically that there is no substitute for hands-on experience.
▪ Sometimes it is even stated categorically that they do not.
▪ Sotheby's stated categorically yesterday that the under-bidder had no association with the company.
▪ I can state categorically that this is not the case.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I am categorically opposed to animal testing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As he did when he first took the stand in November, Simpson categorically denied ever hitting or punching Nicole.
▪ He stated categorically that he had no doubts that the parents in this case were innocent.
▪ If he categorically refused to work in the same Laboratory as Lorrimer, one of them would have to go.
▪ Indeed, he had categorically denied that there was any danger.
▪ Others persuade their instructors to do the very minimum necessary and state categorically that they hate stalls.
▪ Sometimes it is even stated categorically that they do not.
▪ Summing up, I can state categorically that there is no substitute for hands-on experience.
▪ What can you categorically not do to some one else's body?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Categorically

Categorically \Cat`e*gor"ic*al*ly\, adv. Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.

Wiktionary
categorically

adv. In a categorical manner.

WordNet
categorically

adv. in an unqualified manner; "he flatly denied the charges" [syn: flatly, unconditionally]

Usage examples of "categorically".

Certainly, there is not sufficient reason to categorically reject these bones as evidence for a human presence in the Pliocene.

It may indeed be true that the activities of many NGOs serve to further the neoliberal project of global capital, but we should be careful to point out that this cannot adequately define the activities of all NGOs categorically.

Prajna, and Prajna is not an idea or a theory but an injunction or a paradigm: it begins its practice by categorically rejecting every conceivable category of thought to embrace the Real, or Dharmata.

But what you have to do is to categorically deny the allegations of the witnesses against you.

QUALITATIVE DISTINCTIONS The fact that actualization hierarchies involve a ranking of increasing holistic capacityor even a ranking of valueis deeply disturbing to believers in extreme heterarchy, who categorically reject any sort of actual ranking or judgments whatsoever.

It can be categorically stated that no sitting Republican United States senator has ever accused an ideological opponent of anything along the lines of trying to bring back segregated lunch counters.

You must answer my question precisely, categorically, point-blank, and on the instant.

Cao Din That now appeared OQ the stage of the tavern in the Chicago slumburb, where nobody but Art seemed to be paying the least attention, and his translated words were heard, categorically denying all the charges leveled against the leaders of his suffering country.

The fires created by these events are categorically the stuff of your personality, your genes, your past and future.

If anyone had harmed Moonshine, or Colin, who for all his perverse balkiness was the only fellow she'd ever met she could genuinely profess herself to be fond of, she would categorically dismember the culprit with her own hands.

Beyond this, of course, we knew we were, categorically and absolutely, legal slaves, lovely properties which might be bartered and sold, and who might figure in transactions which would be upheld in any court of law.

The chondrules were the one remaining shred of evidence that categorically supported NASA's claim that this was indeed a meteorite.

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS CATEGORICALLY DENIES THE CHARGES LEVELED AGAINST IT IN CLOSED SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL.

The former, in a pre-war report, categorically stated that the mortality rate below the age of fifty-five was twice as high for seamen as it was for the rest of the male population, and statistics issued by the latter showed that the death rate for seamen of all ages was 47% in excess of the national average.

They were rather, I suspected, though I could not know, a simple heritage of my sex, but there was this to be said, had I lived in another place or time I might perhaps have found female fulfillments which, categorically, it seemed, were to be denied to me in my present world, the neuteristic, anonymous world, so inimical to individuality and love, in which I found myself a prisoner of time and circumstance.