Outright and Up front

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Outright adjective - Having no exceptions or restrictions.

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

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Outright and up front are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Outright" instead an adjective phrase "Up front".

He is a racist who barely bothers hiding his racism, and hates working in his dad's pizzeria to the point where he outright refuses to sweep up front and constantly asks someone else to do so.

Source: Film / Do the Right Thing
However even though she's firmly in command, she still can't dispense with manipulating them rather than being up front about what her plans are and how they will solve everyone's problems (in issue 15 outright telling Sabretooth that the rest of the team isn't smart enough to understand).

Source: Too Clever by Half

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Up front and Outright. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/outright/up_front

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