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See definition of off the hook on Dictionary.com
  • as inexempt
  • as infree
  • as inunattached

synonyms for off the hook

  • immune
  • absolved
  • clear
  • cleared
  • discharged
  • excepted
  • excluded
  • excused
  • favored
  • free
  • liberated
  • privileged
  • released
  • spared
  • unbound
  • walked
  • beat the rap
  • let go
  • let off
  • not liable
  • not responsible
  • not subject
  • outside
  • set apart
  • special
  • unchecked
  • unrestrained
  • unrestricted
  • unshackled
  • void of

antonyms for off the hook

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  • hindered
  • prevented
  • accountable
  • answerable
  • liable
  • responsible
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    How to use off the hook in a sentence

    Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
    THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
    A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
    THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
    You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
    MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
    Mr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.
    THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUS
    Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.
    RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
    I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
    RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
    His face was hidden beneath a beard of bristling, bushy red, and he had a sharp hook nose and small, bright eyes.
    THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYD
    The sailors tried to catch some with a hook and line, and were fortunate enough to succeed.
    A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFER
    The launch was already under way, and young Cargill trying to avoid it better, thrust with his boat-hook at the side of the lock.
    UNCANNY TALESVARIOUS
    It was the merest baby—half-an-ounce, perhaps—and it fell from the hook into the herbage some yards from the stream.
    UNCANNY TALESVARIOUS
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