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straight up vs outright

Both 'straight up' and 'outright' are correct phrases, but they are used in different contexts. 'Straight up' is commonly used in informal speech to mean speaking honestly or directly, while 'outright' is used to describe something that is complete, total, or without reservation.

Last updated: March 26, 2024 • 974 views

straight up

The phrase 'straight up' is correct and commonly used in informal speech to mean speaking honestly or directly.

It is often used to emphasize the truthfulness or directness of a statement. It can also be used to mean 'completely' or 'totally'.

Examples:

I'm going to be straight up with you.
Are you being straight up about what happened?
I'm straight up not interested in going to the party.
She's straight up the best singer in the competition.
He's straight up lying to you.

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I just sat straight up and I wanted to leave.
A smart jockey always sits straight up on the horse.
I'd like a vodka martini, straight up.
Give me a martini, straight up, with two olives.
He pulled back the sheet and she sat straight up.
Vodka martini, straight up, olives.
- His rocks, mine straight up.
Always drinks jack, straight up.
And a jack, straight up.
Our family tree goes straight up...
5-0 walked straight up and started burning people.
I'll tell you straight up what I know.
Went straight up to the room.
- He seems pretty straight up to me.
My lawyer here says you can straight up find anything.
Some climb straight up the ice.
Tracy, coffee, straight up.
And a straight up grape soda.
I reckon glamour gran's straight up.
My bot against your bull, straight up.

Alternatives:

honestly
frankly
directly
truthfully
completely

outright

The phrase 'outright' is correct and is used to describe something that is complete, total, or without reservation.

It is often used to emphasize the completeness or totality of something, or to indicate that there are no conditions or reservations attached.

Examples:

He won the game outright.
She made an outright refusal to help.
The company suffered an outright loss.
The decision was an outright mistake.
I have no outright objections to the plan.

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It was a total and outright failure.
Even to ease suffering, I could never justify telling an outright lie.
Sometimes it's even sneakier than an outright fib.
Even resort to some outright trickery.
The public's outright animosity has been diverted...
Meeting in person would be an outright failure.
We treat the aspirations of our electorates with outright contempt.
This goes beyond disobedience into outright negligence.
My tentative judgment is to deny bail outright.
They are not normally used in Eurosystem outright transactions.
We have the option of refusing discharge outright.
This is me outright begging you.
Sometimes they would do an outright swap.
The spectrum extends from outright rejection to qualified approval.
You're never going to get an injunction to stop the strike outright.
That may take more willpower than just quitting outright.
I thought you were looking for an outright buyer.
There's a threat that the body will reject the organ outright.
But Sheriff Hood, his behavior throughout all this has been somewhere between highly questionable and outright criminal.
It should be more than enough to buy the land outright.

Alternatives:

completely
totally
absolutely
fully
unconditionally

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