| 单词 | out-and-out |
| 释义 | out-and-out (once / 10697 pages) adj Out-and-out means "absolute" or "complete," often in a bad way. A terrible party is an out-and-out disaster, and the people who said they’d bring cupcakes but didn’t told an out-and-out lie. The adjective out-and-out is particularly useful for providing emphasis, often in a negative way but not always. For example, you can call your favorite teacher an out-and-out hero, or describe a crooked politician as an out-and-out criminal. An angry English teacher might call a copied paper an out-and-out case of plagiarism, and you might bake a cake for your best friend's birthday that's an out-and-out masterpiece. If someone steals it, she’s an out-and-out cake thief. WORD FAMILYout-and-out USAGE EXAMPLESOut-and-out rockers sat alongside acoustic ballads, the odd quirky cover and ambitious multi-part epics that owed as much to Queen as to Black Sabbath. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) Jacobs, an out-and-out Democrat, also floats the word “paradise”, which may be a tribute to the famous New York club, Paradise Garage. The Guardian(Nov 15, 2016) “I think a large percentage of Trump supporters are out-and-out racist.” Washington Post(Sep 19, 2016) adj complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers out-and-out mayhem an out-and-out lie Syn absolute, downright, rank, right-down, sheer complete having every necessary or normal part or component or step |
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