"Sometimes they just flatly tell us we don't have the right information," he said.

Then he flatly told the audience, "Get used to it."

Krzyzewski flatly told him he would never get into Duke.

"Well, it wouldn't be my first time," Stiles flatly told him, and left no room for alternatives.

She had told Orchid flatly that it did not.

"They stonewalled for a while and then flatly told me they couldn't do that."

In some places, one is told flatly that there is no restroom.

Some said the institute should have flatly told younger women not to have mammograms.

I have been told plainly and flatly what I am to do.

"You never can live in that house when you return," her sister Mary had flatly told her a year earlier.