"outright good" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is completely or entirely good, without any flaws or reservations. Example: "I have to say, your performance in the play was outright good. I was impressed by your acting skills and stage presence."
Never mind that government is a necessary condition for any kind of civilized society, and that "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" can be an outright good thing.
But it is the details, the humiliating extent of defeats for Congress and its leaders, along with signs of changing voter behaviour, that should provoke it to think hard about its prospects.First, the outright good news for the BJP.
Even so, Ian Gordon, banks analyst at Investec, said: "We still fear that, even in the absence of an outright good bank/bad bank split, more covert steps may still destroy value".
By Hendrik Hertzberg July 19 , 2011Never mind that government is a necessary condition for any kind of civilized society, and that "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" can be an outright good thing.
Lovely is understating it - it was Britain at it's most beautiful, positive, outright good, in the good versus evil sense of the word.
Banning telecommuting outright punishes good employees as well as bad, says Joan Williams, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.A growing body of evidence suggests it harms productivity, too.
They do some subtle teaching, a fair amount of diagnosing and, on the good days, intervention, amelioration, even outright prevention.
"As estate planners, the idea of giving money outright is not good planning," he said.
In popular tourist destinations, the service in cafes and restaurants is often jaded if not outright grumpy (with good reason, you might argue).
More than this enthralling matrix of linguistic influence, there's the miracle of the translation itself, a triumph of creative collaboration (54 scholars in six committees), outright plagiarism and good old English pragmatism.
The highest bidder need not win the good outright, or, stated differently, the auction has "pooling," despite the usual regularity conditions.
