Outrightly

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Outright. not-comparable

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"While small-minded, xenophobic or outrightly racist people falsely believe that only persons of Anglo-Saxon or German origin are to be considered Americans, the United States has long prided itself on being a so-called melting pot, embracing both its Indigenous population and immigrants who have settled there from elsewhere."

Etymology

From outright + -ly.

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