outright Betydning & definition

Eksempler på outright

• An outright lie was outlawed by their theology, but an oracular statement, susceptible to more than one interpretation, was a permissible alternative.

• Older people are most likely to have paid-off their mortgage and to own outright.

• Last, but not least, there was an attitude of mind of the rulers towards the ruled, varying between paternalism through uncomprehending distaste to outright racism.

• However, the political problems of abolishing it outright would be huge and so some have advocated phasing it out over a period of time.

• We were lucky that those factors did not degenerate into an outright explosion.

• An aspirational strategy toward trust contemplates inherent tensions and outright contradictions between what public policy professes and what it actually requires.

• Almost all outright owners are in that age category.

• Selling this house in 1996 allowed them to release enough equity to buy their pensioners' flat outright.