straight-up
Example Sentences
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“This is straight-up extortion, what they’re doing to me,” Levy said later.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
"There's no profit. It's straight-up losses," said Kwanchai, who has been forced to send his employees home while waiting for prices to fall.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
But here’s the catch: plenty of shady providers will log your data, inject malware or straight-up compromise your privacy.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026
Denver, New England and Jacksonville could all end up as top seeds in the AFC, while the San Francisco 49ers host the Seattle Seahawks in a straight-up fight to claim top spot in the NFC.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025
But she couldn’t understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who’d never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
