6 sentences with 'outright'

Example sentences and phrases with the word outright and other words derived from it.

« Slaves were not usually killed outright, but this was because murder was seen as an offence to the gods, not because there were legal consequences. »
« Over the centuries, poor farmers found it increasingly difficult to hold on to their land, both because they could not compete with the huge slave plantations of the rich and because of outright extortion. »
« In other words, scientific advances inadvertently led to the growth of scepticism about religion, sometimes to outright atheism - the rejection of the very idea of God's existence. »
« While few Enlightenment thinkers were outright atheists, almost all of them decried many church practices and what they perceived as the ignorance and injustice behind church (especially Catholic) laws. »
« After 1848, socialism became increasingly militant, focusing on the need for confrontational tactics, even outright violence, to achieve a better society. »
« Third, colonial regimes exploited native labour. This was sometimes in the form of outright slavery as in the Congo, the Portuguese African colonies and forced labour in the French and German colonies. »
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