1.
You use outright to describe behaviour and actions that are open and direct, rather than indirect.
Kawaguchi finally resorted to an outright lie.
...outright condemnation.
ADJ: ADJ n
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Outright is also an adverb.
Why are you so mysterious. Why don't you tell me outright?...
ADV: ADV after v
2.
Outright means complete and total.
She had failed to win an outright victory...
The response of the audience varied from outright rejection to warm hospitality.
= absolute
ADJ: ADJ n
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Outright is also an adverb.
The peace plan wasn't rejected outright.
ADV: ADV after v
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If someone is killed outright, they die immediately, for example in an accident.
My driver was killed outright.
PHRASE: V inflects