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• a  relating to or included in a category or categories
• s  not modified or restricted by reservations
  a categorical denial

• This time Coe, his old air of self-righteousness completely muffled, made no indignant, categoric denials of Communist membership or espionage.
• The Senate was categoric in its questioning.
• The influential Paris weekly, Arts, protested its removal as being "too categoric and too late; it justly provokes scandal and nothing can justify adhesion to the ideas defended .

• categorical
• flat
• unconditional

News & Articles

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• Football star Diarra denies joining Syria war
  French international Lassana Diarra on Tuesday denied rumours on social media websites that he had become a jihadist in the Syria war. The Lokomotiv Moscow midfielder "denies in the most formal, the most categoric, the most absolute fashion that he has gone to Syria," said Diarra's French lawyer Eric Dupond Moretti. "He has never set foot in Syria. He is not a jihadist, he is a footballer with ...
  April 8, 2014 - AFP via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Andrew Robb in South Western Rural Advertiser
  The legal opinion was provided to the NSW division of the Liberal party and Mr (Sandy) Street SC is absolutely categoric in his advice that there would be a need for a by-election if Mr Newhouse is elected for the federal seat of Wentworth,Mr...
• Adrian Bevington in Sportinglife.com
  FA director of communications Adrian Bevington said: "I have spoken to Steve McClaren regarding this story and he is categoric that there is no truth whatsoever in this."
• Nick Clegg in 24dash
  Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Mr Clegg said: "Of course I am not going to give a categoric statement of unambiguous support because a monumental mistake was made which he himself admitted was an error which brings into question not only his judgment...