Sentence examples for outright clarification from inspiring English sources
Representatives of Day and Spieth did not respond to the Guardian's request for outright clarification regarding Olympic status, with both believed to be wavering.
The National Electoral Commission Sierra Leone has come out with a clarification to – and, an outright condemnation – of the news that theirs was one of the first elections recorded to the blockchain.
Before real riots might have broken out, the Delhi police issued a quick clarification that this was an outright lie.
After the report, ABC was slammed by conservatives charging "fake news" and by a number of journalists for its tepid clarification rather than an immediate outright correction.
Because the generic description of tuna is what customers are accustomed to, it is unlikely that the majority of the failed descriptions were motivated by outright deceit, particularly in instances when the wait-staff –not chef– were relied upon for clarification.
He says about the first two on this list (and would no doubt extend the comment to the others): "If some one accepts these notions outright for such use, I am at a loss to imagine what he can have deemed more in need of clarification and analysis than the things he has thus accepted" (1981, 184).
Clarification A clarification.
Many rejected it outright.
("Outright knavery," Lomax complained).
