out-and-out

How To Use out-and-out In A Sentence

• It's not so much that I've quietened down, as that I've channelled my energies into things that are more productive than out-and-out hedonism.
• An out-and-out nationalist, he promoted Irish industry by building exhibition buildings.
• This joint commitment moves away from the idea of loyalty solely to a single school and from the idea of out-and-out competition.
• Not much -- any list of the Thirteen Best Books is pretty random and thus useless and I have to wonder whether, in including the Hardy Boys, he means the ones he read as a lad (nostalgia time) or the ones currently published (out-and-out lame). Speaking as one old fart to another
• Connacht woman, but an out-and-out Connamara quean, and when only thirteen had wrought with the lads who used to make the raal cratur on the islands between Ochterard and Bally na hinch. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
• Coat an already harrowing scene with live music and well, we're talking out-and-out melodrama, and you definitely don't want that.
• And I'm the same as most out-and-out goalscorers in not being as comfortable with one-on-ones as picking up on scraps.
• A winger to me is a striker, a finisher, an out-and-out attacker with an aggressive and instinctive nose for the try-line.
• As I said earlier, I think it's premature to call him an out-and-out hero.
• Advocates of out-and-out conquest argued that Indians were either subhumans or heathens and were therefore incapable of having dominion over themselves or over property.