Meanings
adverbpointblank (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleterarepoint-blank
We had many hot discussions on the topic, and it ended by my refusing pointblank to marry Miss Sherman at all.
1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, →ISBN, page 149
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