Thesaurus / outright
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For each turn, you actually had less than a 50 percent chance of winning outright, since there was a nonzero chance of a mini “War” in which their card had a matching rank, leaving you and your opponent to split the leftover probability.
THE FIFTH BATTLE FOR RIDDLER NATIONZACH WISSNER-GROSSSEPTEMBER 4, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTLike many others, he mixed criticism with outright falsehoods.
AS TRUMP CALLS FOR LAW AND ORDER, CAN CHICAGO’S TOP PROSECUTOR BEAT THE CHARGE THAT SHE’S SOFT ON CRIME?BY MICK DUMKESEPTEMBER 4, 2020PROPUBLICAInitially, she had set her sights on breaking Jennifer Pharr-Davis’s 2011 mark of 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes—which was the outright record until Scott Jurek broke it in 2015—but chronic shin splints got in the way.
INSIDE AN FKT ATTEMPT ON THE APPALACHIAN TRAILMARTIN FRITZ HUBERSEPTEMBER 3, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEIt would be one thing if they were just an outright deniers of the virus’s lethality and threat.
TEAM REOPEN: 2, SCHOOLS: 0SCOTT LEWISAUGUST 31, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOThis was a tactic by lawmakers, Peer said, because an outright ban would most likely not pass.
ISRAEL LAWMAKERS MOVE TO BAN CONVERSION THERAPYKAELA ROEDERAUGUST 12, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEIn the early days of rooftop solar, panels were too expensive for many homeowners to buy outright.
WHAT THE BIGGEST-EVER SOLAR COMPANY ACQUISITION MEANS FOR THE FUTURETIM MCDONNELLJULY 8, 2020QUARTZAccordingly, as soon as they saw our Priests they refused outright to let the ship sail if the Jesuits were to embark in it.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUSGwynne laughed outright, and for the first time without resentment; he was tired of having California "rammed down his throat."
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONMargaret laughed outright and her laughter was so inoffensive and so musical that the Chief Inspector laughed also.
DOPESAX ROHMERAre you going to throw off the mask outright, and become a bad husband as well as a neglectful one?
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODWORDS RELATED TO OUTRIGHT
- aboveboard
- apparent
- artless
- bare-faced
- blunt
- bold
- brazen
- call a spade a spade
- candid
- direct
- downright
- easy
- familiar
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- from the hip
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- heart-to-heart
- honest
- ingenuous
- lay it on the line
- like it is
- man-to-man
- matter-of-fact
- naive
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- plain-spoken
- real
- saying what one thinks
- scrupulous
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- transparent
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- undisguised
- uninhibited
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- rank
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- unmitigated
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- characteristic
- clean-cut
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- cut fine
- dead on
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- different
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- individual
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- outright
- peculiar
- precise
- reserved
- restricted
- right on
- set
- sole
- special
- specialized
- straight-out
- unambiguous
- unequivocal
- unique
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