Dictionary
be flatly
adverb
In a definite manner; in a manner showing complete certainty.
synonyms
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As if that weren't enough, what your different instructors tell you may be flatly contradictory.
The statement in question must be flatly false, made knowingly and about something important.
In each case, Mr. Browne betrayed little doubt — he offered as fact what proved to be flatly wrong.
"What the private company here is doing would be flatly illegal for the government to do," Buttar said, noting the irony of the company's name.
Choosing the 10 best songs by the most ludicrously prolific – and riotously diverse – artist of the rock'n'roll era seems on the face to it to be flatly absurd.
But businesses accustomed to exploiting the richness of data, legally or otherwise, may be flatly uninterested.Does privacy sell?There is scant evidence that concern about privacy is causing a fundamental change in the way data are used and stored.
Similar(40)
It is flatly false.
It's flatly untrue.
This is flatly untrue.
That was flatly denied.
That's flatly untrue.
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