That's an out-and-out lie!
Though none was an out-and-out abolitionist, they were still closely concerned with the outcome of the struggle.
The room is an out-and-out rock palaces, with brick masonry from the whole, without a wood.
Or not an out-and-out horror movie, but a horror movie leavened with large doses of black humor.
Their actions leave open the further question: when does out-and-out prevarication shade off into self-deception and denial?
But lately ambivalence is turning into out-and-out royalism.