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flat-out
[ flat-out ]
adjective
- moving or working at top speed or with maximum effort; all-out:
a flat-out effort by all contestants.
- downright; thoroughgoing:
Many of the paintings were flat-out forgeries.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of flat-out1
Example Sentences
“Now, they are bringing partisan politics directly to the cafeteria table, threatening our children’s food security as a mechanism to force states to comply with a national ideological agenda. This is flat-out wrong.”
For now, they look flat-out unbeatable.
When an airport immigration officer once asked him flat-out if he was a Korean citizen, he evaded the question and told her both of his parents were American — which was the truth.
“The new Administration must fill its ranks with political appointees,” the document flat-out directs.
Dude has been flat-out laughing in the high-profile attorney’s face after she filed a lawsuit alleging that he and his entourage rode up on a scooter-riding photographer and whacked the guy with an SUV door.
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