Outright and Textbook

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Outright adjective - Having no exceptions or restrictions.

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Textbook and outright are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Textbook" instead an adjective "Outright".

Textbook adjective - Constituting, serving as, or worthy of being a pattern to be imitated.

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Outright and textbook are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Outright" instead an adjective "Textbook".

The characters are vivid and spot-on, the medical explanations a textbook example of Shown Their Work, and the mystery surrounding Megamind's imprisonment is extremely compelling, becoming outright conspiratorial.

Source: Fanfic Recs / Megamind
While accurate in that it's an almost textbook bow drill set, a real life bushcraft tool, it's incorrect in that it doesn't create the fire outright it only creates the embers, which you drop on a pile of tinder to only then start the fire proper.

Source: Recap / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S3 E6 "Sleepless in Ponyville"

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