Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective informal, 1960's very good; same as
groovy , sense 1.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb quietly in concealment
- adjective not accessible to view
- adverb no longer visible
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Examples
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If you can assault this woman with impunity (I refer to the baton strike, which was unforgivable) even when it has been filmed, we can imagine what goes on out-of-sight.
G20 police assault verdict SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Many past solutions have focused on capturing CO2 and simply storing it away – an out-of-sight, out-of-mind answer to a much more difficult question.
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It tells bewildered and beleaguered residents that government is the enemy, that the cause of unemployment and out-of-sight health insurance rates is taxes, that deregulating capital to make more capital will be a boon for everyone, even the poor, disenfranchised and helpless.
John Stoehr: The Problem With Conservatives Isn't Ideology -- It's Lying John Stoehr 2011
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One out-of-sight matter to consider might be those crosshairs -- not on a symbolic political map but over actual humans beings, resulting in multiple deaths.
Tom Engelhardt: In the Crosshairs: Tucson-Kabul Tom Engelhardt 2011
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One out-of-sight matter to consider might be those crosshairs -- not on a symbolic political map but over actual humans beings, resulting in multiple deaths.
Tom Engelhardt: In the Crosshairs: Tucson-Kabul Tom Engelhardt 2011
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It tells bewildered and beleaguered residents that government is the enemy, that the cause of unemployment and out-of-sight health insurance rates is taxes, that deregulating capital to make more capital will be a boon for everyone, even the poor, disenfranchised and helpless.
John Stoehr: The Problem With Conservatives Isn't Ideology -- It's Lying John Stoehr 2011
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And when my daughter has gone to bed, I'm still so rattled that I cart off the couple of copies of my memoir about depression, anxiety, self-harm and alcoholism, A Head Full of Blue, from a low-slung, out-of-sight bookshelf in the living room and put them on a high shelf behind a door in our bedroom.
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One out-of-sight matter to consider might be those crosshairs -- not on a symbolic political map but over actual humans beings, resulting in multiple deaths.
Tom Engelhardt: In the Crosshairs: Tucson-Kabul Tom Engelhardt 2011
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What is the process for cleaning up the millions of gallons of subsurface oil that now seems to be out-of-sight and out-of-mind?
Kristen Psaki: Not So Fast BP Kristen Psaki 2010
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In deeper federal waters, though – despite the similarities in how such wells are constructed and how sealing procedures can fail – the official policy is out-of-sight, out-of-mind.
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