Sentence examples for outright bad from inspiring English sources

The acting ranges from mediocre to outright bad, especially on "All My Children".

And surely no one could have wanted underrehearsed or outright bad performances, let alone train wrecks.

Many of the other numbers from the payroll survey, I should note, were likewise lackluster, if not outright bad.

Is it moral for schools like these to keep enrolling students and collecting tuition dollars knowing that their product is a risky (or outright bad) investment?

Re "Damned Yankees," Feb. 26: I have spent countless hours explaining the many mediocre and outright bad seasons I suffered through as a Yankees fan.

Outright bad faith by reporters is exceedingly rare, in my experience, but absolute fidelity to what I know, as opposed to what is reported, is equally unusual.

An astonishing list of cock-ups and outright cynicism, a bad news beat poem to put the icing on this baddest of years.

The book also has problems in its dialogue, which sometimes reads like bad translation, outright parody or both.

Analysts have speculated that the central bank will try to go further to ease money to match the growing willingness of banking authorities to persuade banks to write off bad loans outright.

And I've never heard anyone say outright, "Those schools are bad because the people who go there don't deserve any better, and I want my child to be in a comfortable place of privilege".

Despite growing concerns over Erdoğan's anti-democratic behavior, European leaders haven't been willing to declare Turkey's EU bid doomed for fear of what a might happen if relations with Ankara went from bad to outright disastrous, Mounk said.