flatly
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- r in an unqualified manner
he flatly denied the charges
- He notes that no film footage of the Pentagon explosion exists and regards eyewitness testimony of the crash as suspicious, contradictory or flatly incredible.
- Calm and comfortable in the witness chair, he declared flatly that he had not had a nervous breakdown either.
- Instead, Ford blows it by stating flatly, "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.