Crossword clues for out-and-out
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
out-and-out \out-and-out\, out and out \out and out\adv. Completely; wholly; openly.
out-and-out \out-and-out\, out and out \out and out\adj. Without any reservation or disguise; downright; plain; unqualified; absolute; as, an out and out villain; an out-and-out lie.
Syn: flat-out, outright.
Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic English) complete, utter.
WordNet
adj. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity" [syn: absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)]
Usage examples of "out-and-out".
The news that the Nonesuch had another cousin staying with him, and one who was an out-and-out dandy, rapidly spread, and was productive of a spate of notes directed to Sir Waldo, and carrying the assurances of the various hostesses to whom he and Lindeth were engaged that they would be most happy to include Mr Laurence Calver amongst their guests.
Because unless he missed his guess, Foucault was a sharpster, if not an out-and-out criminal.
The warleader commanding the desert horse warriors had been too cagey to see his force ensnared in an out-and-out battle.
The Temple Upperpriests and Archpriests of Styphon's House are out-and-out crooks and make no apologies for it.
The news that the Nonesuch had another cousin staying with him, and one who was an out-and-out dandy, rapidly spread, and was productive of a spate of notes directed to Sir Waldo, and carrying the assurances of the various hostesses to whom he and Lin-deth were engaged that they would be most happy to include Mr Laurence Calver amongst their guests.
With the out-and-out, turn-the-other-cheek pacifists you come upon the much stranger phenomenon of people who have started by renouncing violence, ending by championing Hitler.
By then he expected to be dead of frustration or boredom or out-and-out brain freeze.
I could, I thought, place every type: the nice girl who flirts, the nice girl who doesn't, the brazen out-and-out streetwalker I was warned against.
Tempting perquisites were offered to volunteers who would accept grey torcs, and there were rumours that out-and-out conscription among the displaced persons had already begun.
During her brief sojourn in London she had seen several of these exquisites on the Grand Strut in Hyde Park, and she was well aware that to win the admiration of an out-and-out Pink of the Ton added enormously to a lady's consequence.
Psychic researchers (and there were many besides Denis), after enduring decades of condescending tolerance or out-and-out ridicule from their conservative peers, basked in a new and unprecedented atmosphere of respect as they found themselves courted by the media, by sundry government agencies, and by commercial exploiters scenting a new growth industry that might eventually rival aerospace or genetic technology.
Some out-and-out lied, usually white middle-aged macho men who invariably recalled seeing black or Hispanic gang members.
There’s the brightest and best example this last twenty years affords us - the Western World spent the first fifteen years of it legally killing off all the little monstrosities born of the few women who weren’t rendered out-and-out sterile.
There's the brightest and best example this last twenty years affords us - the Western World spent the first fifteen years of it legally killing off all the little monstrosities born of the few women who weren't rendered out-and-out sterile.
But many pardoners were out-and-out frauds, selling worthless pieces of paper, and even legitimate ones often kept more than their share of the proceeds.