straight-out

See also: straight out

English

Adjective

straight-out (comparative more straight-out, superlative most straight-out)

1. Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise.
2. unqualified; thoroughgoing

   Synonym: out-and-out

   • 1856, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp:

     Anne was indignant with that straight-out and generous indignation which belongs to women, who are ready to follow their principles to any result with more inconsiderate fearlessness than men.