0 complete or in every way; used to emphasize an unpleasant quality of a person or thing:
He’s an out-and-out fraud.
They are also used by professional critics who review current releases by out-and-out rock bands.
Its most obvious manifestation was the out-and-out warfare mentioned earlier.
The adjective downright derives and takes its meanings from the adverb, including the degree meaning 'out-and-out'.
So do the out-and-out vivisectionists.
Taking up the issue of lexicalization (see section 2.1 above), the new meaning of the item 'completely, out-and-out' at this stage is no longer predictable from the constituents down+right.
It is also time that we took greater account of the growing dissatisfaction with the practices of out-and-out free trade.
That is a clear case of out-and-out sale by the deceased for his own benefit.
This is a ridiculous piece of out-and-out bureaucracy.
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徹頭徹尾的,十足的,完完全全的…
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de los pies a la cabeza, compulsivo, empedernido…
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