It is an outright lie that I am a spy.

I had expected an outright refusal, but to my surprise she agreed.

There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in The United States of America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

The subcontractors say that after they completed all required work according to construction specifications, Tom would either outright refuse to pay their invoices or would only pay them one-third of the amount they had billed.

Some people who hate minorities of all sorts claim that no gay people live in their country. Some antidemocratic or outright fascistic governments later attempt to make that absurd assertion a reality by the criminal prosecution of homosexual people or even their execution.

I bought this outright.

That's an outright lie.

Bombing Iran would be easy but it's outright impossible to conquer by land troops.

In science, one cannot cheat on quantitative or qualitative data, or outright lie about information, unlike science fiction, which likes to play with hypotheticals for not just entertainment.

While small-minded, xenophobic or outrightly racist people falsely believe that only persons of Anglo-Saxon or German origin are to be considered Americans, the United States has long prided itself on being a so-called melting pot, embracing both its Indigenous population and immigrants who have settled there from elsewhere.