Definition of Straight-out

1. Adjective. Without reservation or exception.

Exact synonyms: Outright, Unlimited
Similar to: Unqualified

Lexicographical Neighbors of Straight-out

straight-arm
straight-armed
straight-arming
straight-arms
straight-backed
straight-chain
straight-faced
straight-fluted drill
straight-forward
straight-from-the-shoulder
straight-jacket
straight-joint
straight-laced
straight-line method
straight-line method of depreciation
straight-out (current term)
straight-sets
straight A
straight As
straight and narrow
straight angle
straight arch
straight arm
straight armed
straight arming
straight arms
straight arrow
straight as an arrow
straight away
straight bat

Literary usage of Straight-out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Liberal Republican Movement by Earle Dudley Ross (1910)
"... that the whole "straight-out" movement was but an administration decoy for discontented, unwary Democratic voters, and there seem to have been some ..."

2. Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a by James Montgomery Bailey (1873)
"It can kick straight out at the rear, or straight out at the front, to the left or right, over its back, or around a corner, and, in a case of emergency, ..."

3. Governor Chamberlain's Administration in South Carolina: A Chapter of by Walter Allen (1888)
"... Refuted—The Governor States the Issue Made by His Nomination—The "Conservative" Policy and the " straight-out " Policy—Falsity of the Pretence that All ..."

4. Governor Chamberlain's Administration in South Carolina: A Chapter of by Walter Allen (1888)
"... His Nomination—The "Conservative" Policy and the " straight-out " Policy—Falsity of the Pretence that All Democratic Agencies Are " Peaceful, Orderly, ..."

5. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"The city is here, all right and straight out! Commerce is here ! Commerce, in whose wants, on whose call, the Union, this Union, under this Constitution, ..."

6. Explanatory notes upon the New Testament by John Wesley (1813)
"And her spirit returned, and she arose straight- out, and taking her hy the hand, called, saying, Maid, 56 way, and he commanded to give her to eat. ..."

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