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synonyms for no holds barred

  • complete
  • full
  • infinite
  • outright
  • pure
  • sheer
  • simple
  • unadulterated
  • unconditional
  • unlimited
  • unqualified
  • utter
  • entire
  • free
  • total
  • unabridged
  • consummate
  • downright
  • flat out
  • no catch
  • no fine print
  • no ifs ands or buts
  • no joke
  • no strings attached
  • plenary
  • straight out
  • supreme
  • thorough
  • unrestricted

antonyms for no holds barred

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  • bounded
  • conditional
  • incomplete
  • indefinite
  • limited
  • needy
  • qualified
  • uncertain
  • unfinished
  • abridged
  • part
  • partial
  • accountable
  • circumscribed
  • complaisant
  • compliant
  • dependent
  • flawed
  • imperfect
  • restricted
  • submissive
  • tractable
  • yielding
  • ambiguous
  • equivocal
  • indefinite
  • indistinct
  • inexact
  • uncertain
  • vague
  • conditional
  • implied
  • qualified
  • questionable
  • tentative
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      How to use no holds barred in a sentence

      The player to his right holds eight, the player to his left has only six—the right side wins, the left side loses.
      THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
      My No. 4239 addressed to Maxwell and repeated to you was sent before receiving your telegram under reply.
      GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
      His nature was bold and fitted to command, and to him is due, in a large degree, the proud position the Midland holds to-day.
      FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOW
      He holds them with the air of a gentleman, comfortable and at ease in all respects, mentally and bodily.
      BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
      He was a new breed, that parson, a genuwine no-two-alike, come-one-in-a-box kind.
      ALEC LLOYD, COWPUNCHERELEANOR GATES
      A pupil had loaned money to a horse-dealer who lived at No. 715 of a certain street.
      ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)
      A claim barred by the statute of limitations is not provable, nor is a contingent liability.
      PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLES
      We have worked this out for all classes of tone—string, flute and diapason—and the law holds good in every instance.
      THE RECENT REVOLUTION IN ORGAN BUILDINGGEORGE LAING MILLER
      Dey's squar little towels what you holds in yer lap to wipe yer fingers on when you've done eatin'.
      THE CROMPTONSMARY J. HOLMES
      His brain—the part where human reasoning holds normal sway—was dominated by the purely primitive instinct of flight.
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