straight-out
Example Sentences
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Which is to say, Colón-Zayas knows the ups and downs of being talented, hardworking and sometimes straight-out ignored, as Tina is in so much of “Napkins.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2025
Miller doesn’t ask his clients straight-out if they’re homeless.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2022
In the town of Cicely, there are very few people that are portrayed as just straight-out bad.
From Salon • Sep. 10, 2020
Like, just straight-out asked him, “What do you think of a show where we interview celebrities while making them eat violently hot chicken wings?”
From The Verge • Oct. 31, 2019
Still, she found it hard to straight-out defy Dad.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
