out-and-outin a sentence
- an out-and-out lie
- out-and-out mayhem
- Odom's tours are an out-and-out con job," the spy went on.† (source)
- Shift schedules, fund allocations, project juggling, out-and-out looting of other projects …. he'd never pulled so many stunts in his life.† (source)
- I had an out-and-out crush on him.† (source)
- I mean, quite frankly, Andy was just about the clumsiest kid I ever saw that wasn't out-and-out spastic or retarded …. good God, you ought to have seen him on the tennis court, we used to joke about entering him in the Special Olympics, he would have swept every event.† (source)
- The place in Florida is a dump, if the out-and-out truth is to be spoken.† (source)
- But that is an out-and-out grin.† (source)
- Lither that, or that particular cab driver was an out-and-out-louse.† (source)
- Mother must have concluded that since I was above out-and-out lying I was also beyond deceit.† (source)
- Also, you'll find out soon enough that John distorts--when he isn't out-and-out lying.† (source)
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- It's not like anyone was out-and-out mean to me, but I felt iced out by Amos and Henry and Miles.† (source)
- It was worth the marathon of cutting and sewing when I walked in for the Report and the first thing I saw was the out-and-out envy in Josie's eyes.† (source)
- I don't think any of our assets out-and-out lied to us, but they would exaggerate, probably to get more money.† (source)
- I call that out-and-out prejudice.† (source)
- Some of them were out-and-out frauds, and they exploited their people terribly.† (source)
- "There's few out-and-out traitors, though there's some, even your spider hasn't found them all," Bywater had warned him.† (source)
- This isn't an out-and-out lie, because the headaches are a part of it.† (source)
- If he were out-and-out uncontrollably insane, we would have to put him away forever.† (source)
- But even with the gun adding inches to his stature, he was not out-and-out vicious, merely impatient.† (source)
- I don't think the Catholic Church proclaimed any of it as out-and-out miracles, which was pretty smart of them.† (source)
- Boris had promised me that we would do two of the leftover hits of acid as soon as his mind got back to usual, which was how he put it; he still felt a bit spaced-out, he confided, saw moving patterns in the fake wood-grain of his desk at school, and the first few times he'd smoked weed he'd started out-and-out tripping again.† (source)
- The out-and-out meanness.† (source)
- It was harder to bear than Honey's out-and-out cattiness.† (source)
- Well, I never see anything like that old blister for clean out-and-out cheek.† (source)
- And afterward an out-and-out materialistic world—and the Catholic Church.† (source)
- 'He's an out-and-out Christian,' said Charley.† (source)
- Is it only a small crack, or a out-and-out smash?† (source)
- That is talking like an out-and-out enemy of the people!† (source)
- 'I never see such an out-and-out young wagabond, your worship,' observed the officer with a grin.† (source)
- I've never even done military service, am an out-and-out child of peace, and sometimes I've even thought that I might very easily have become a clergyman—as I've mentioned on various occasions, just ask my cousin.† (source)
- Not one of them, not the biggest drunkard, not the most…. out-and-out ruffian, not one of them ever preached ex cathedra a word of false doctrine.† (source)
- But suppose that secretly—After all, you never could tell about these darn highbrows; and to be an out-and-out spiritualist would be almost like being a socialist!† (source)
- It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship.† (source)
- A sort of wit like Brichot's would have been regarded as out-and-out stupidity by the people among whom Swann had spent his early life, for all that it is quite compatible with real intelligence.† (source)
- "Oh, you'll see fighting this time, my boy, what'll be regular out-and-out fighting," added the tall soldier, with the air of a man who is about to exhibit a battle for the benefit of his friends.† (source)
- But the king he only looked sorrowful, and says: "Gentlemen, I wish the money was there, for I ain't got no disposition to throw anything in the way of a fair, open, out-and-out investigation o' this misable business; but, alas, the money ain't there; you k'n send and see, if you want to."† (source)
- "I'll never tell him to my dying day, wild horses shan't drag it out of me, so you'll forgive me, Meg, and I'll do anything to show how out-and-out sorry I am," he added, looking very much ashamed of himself.† (source)
- Newman, talking once of the marquise to Mrs. Tristram, said that after all it was very easy to get on with her; it always was easy to get on with out-and-out rascals.† (source)
- The crew called themselves "out-and-out fools" for being hoodwinked by a fairy tale, then grew steadily more furious!† (source)
- Out-and-out beggars get taken care of, but poor gentle folks fare badly, because they won't ask, and people don't dare to offer charity.† (source)
- This was merely intended as a tribute to the animal's abilities, but it was an appropriate remark in another sense, if Master Bates had only known it; for there are a good many ladies and gentlemen, claiming to be out-and-out Christians, between whom, and Mr. Sikes' dog, there exist strong and singular points of resemblance.† (source)
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- It was a riddle expanding out and out and out.† (source)
- The moment stretched out and out, interminable.† (source)
- You know how girls are at that age about any attention paid their bodies, and this was out and out probing of the rudest kind.† (source)
- ' It was the first time in a long time I'd out and out lied and it bothered me.† (source)
- …with terror forever ruining any other look she might ever try to use again, screaming when he grabbed for her and ripped her uniform all the way down the front, screaming again when the two nippled circles started from her chest and swelled out and out, bigger than anybody had ever even imagined, warm and pink in the light-only at the last, after the officials realized that the three black boys weren't going to do anything but stand and watch and they would have to beat him off without…† (source)
- That's a out and out lie or I never heard one, said Rawlins.† (source)
- If the boy were here The line went out and out and out but it was slowing now and he was making the " fish earn each inch of it.† (source)
- Sliding from his mouth, out and out and out, red and wet and glistening, it made a hideous sight, obscene.† (source)
- I have turned out to be a right out and out Abolitionist.† (source)
- The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear.† (source)
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- That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.† (source)
- Not to mention that it's out and out creepy that Fifi, the maverick, is so changed.† (source)
- He didn't sit by me in class; his workshop poems became unaccountably straightforward and affectionate, out and out love poems.† (source)
- It's plain out and out stealing and you know it.† (source)
- So he preached to them, as he had always preached: with that rapt fury which they had considered sacrilege and which those from the other churches believed to be out and out insanity.† (source)
- Out and out one went, further, until at last one seemed to be on a narrow plank, perfectly alone, over the sea.† (source)
- For the space of the prospect and its clarity seemed to offer no impediment whatsoever, but to allow our lives to spread out and out beyond all bristling of roofs and chimneys to the flawless verge.† (source)
- He repudiated blood birthright and material security for his sake, for the sake of this man who was at least an intending bigamist even if not an out and out blackguard, and on whose dead body four years later Judith was to find the photograph of the other woman and the child.† (source)
- Immediately the wind lifted both of them and she saw herself sailing off the fill to the right, out and out over the lashing water.† (source)
- I tried to breathe but my breath would not come and I felt myself rush bodily out of myself and out and out and out and all the time bodily in the wind.† (source)
- Maybe she knew he had just gone off by himself to get himself worked up good to what she might have been advising him to do all the time, herself, without saying it in out and out words, which a lady naturally couldn't do; not even a lady with a Saturday night family.† (source)
- A Radical out and out, she learnt to speak with horror of Suburbia.† (source)
- "Surely you don't think me such an out and out scoundrel as that?† (source)
- Don't try to be any one else; be simply yourself, out and out.† (source)
- Leave me to myself, rather, or defy me, out and out.† (source)
- We are Radicals, too, out and out.† (source)
- I know human nature pretty well by now," he added, with a note of sadness in his cheery, young voice, "and I know these Frenchmen out and out.† (source)
- The foreignness of his depigmentation by unknown suns, his nourishment by strange soils, his tongue awkward with the curl of many dialects, his reactions attuned to odd alarms—these things fascinated and rested Nicole—in the moment of meeting she lay on his bosom, spiritually, going out and out…… Then self-preservation reasserted itself and retiring to her own world she spoke lightly.† (source)
- —Not by a long chalk! we'll have the gal out and out, and you keep quiet, or, ye see, we'll have both,—what's to hinder?† (source)
- He could spar better than Knuckles, the private (who would have been a corporal but for his drunkenness, and who had been in the prize-ring); and was the best batter and bowler, out and out, of the regimental club.† (source)
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