I did a couple of times, and they were outright disasters.

The problem became an outright disaster on Christmas Day in 1953.

The degree of command over the instrument is another matter, but even in that department there are few outright disasters here.

Opportunities abound for serious mishaps, like losing equipment down a hole, and even outright disaster.

When you then add the fact that for many of those customers an upgrade from 6100 to 6200 is a sideways move, it's an outright disaster.

Still, the choice was Garn's and no lord ever led his people into outright disaster if he could help it.

The company has suffered a string of box office disappointments and outright disasters recently.

The earthquake and the cholera epidemic that followed it were an outright disaster for the people of Haiti.

I know this measure is a financial hardship on many and an outright disaster for others.

Whatever the cause, the result can be pure headache for her Captain and shipmates, if not outright disaster.