Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Thoroughly; out and out.
  • On the outward side; outwardly.

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Examples

  • The interior walls are consistently painted in a broken white nuance and the furnishings feels well thought-outly and carefully selected.

    Urban Cottage Design Nestled in Stephentown, New York 2009

  • Dulles was devoutly, maybe even "wacked outly" religious, and after World War II, became a wacked out anticommunist, partly because of his religiosity.

    Lessons From The Philippines Insurrection And Our Overthrow Of Mossadegh, Part II. 2007

  • And my answer is: companies that couldn't just if that kind of cost outly could justify harvesting the crowds online willing to work for short periods of time and for micropayments.

    Coldwell Banker selling homes in Second Life 2007

  • Only they do not think hard, and they do not understand that doing a job properly means doing it as directly and thought-outly as you possibly can.

    Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1906

  • If you just are who you are, and are secure in outly being it, chances are you’ll be much more secure, much less passive aggressive, and there’s much less misinterpretation that others are somehow against you, and there’s that need to preemptively insult for protection of your delicate ego.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Born Jewish? 2009

  • She turned up the whites of her eyes dev outly at the sight of me, and the first words she said were — ‘Oh, Lydia!

    Armadale 2003

  • "The trains which traverse the lines of rail beside which the body was found are those which run from west to east, some being purely Metropolitan, and some from Willesden and outly - ing junctions.

    His Last Bow Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1917

  • "The trains which traverse the lines of rail beside which the body was found are those which run from west to east, some being purely Metropolitan, and some from Willesden and outly - ing junctions.

    His Last Bow Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1917

  • "The trains which traverse the lines of rail beside which the body was found are those which run from west to east, some being purely Metropolitan, and some from Willesden and outly - ing junctions.

    His Last Bow Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1917

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