Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers.
1Which, of course, he knew and I knew was an out-and-out fib.
2Much of it is an out-and-out desert; all of it is arid.
3But there's no way anyone would mistake this for an out-and-out shooter.
4The Ford Mondeo, in its current form, should be an out-and-out winner.
5The risk now was not so much another mutiny as out-and-out starvation.
6I don't think we have had an out-and-out 8 since Joy Neville.
7He presented it as an out-and-out atrocity, but there were extenuating circumstances.
8One -the worst-casescenario -was an out-and-out war in 2030.
9In all my years I've only had a handful of out-and-out refusals.
10Kennedy hastened to stop the colloquy before it became an out-and-out quarrel.
11An out-and-out no-frills full-back while they reached seven senior finals from 1985.
12No wingers This Chiefs squad lacks genuine width and out-and-out winger options.
13I want to do better, I want to be an out-and-out Christian.
14If he were an out-and-out native he wouldn't be quite so revolting.
15She wasn't out-and-out handsome, but there was something very taking about her.
16Anyone can tell, with half a glance, that he's an out-and-out gentleman.