straight-up
Example Sentences
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“This could be a straight-up landlord-tenant claim that the landlord is not holding up its end of the bargain in terms of maintaining the property,” he says.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 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
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
That was not, in Hobsbawm’s analysis, a straight-up clash between good and evil or enlightenment and darkness; he was a non-dogmatic Marxist, always attuned to the nuanced dialectical relationship between historical forces.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025
However, my grandma is straight-up beautiful, now and then.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
