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How to use downright in a sentence

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I, too, am one of your ilk, and I know the pain, suffering, stress, frustration, and downright anger that comes from driving in this place.
I am fully aware that my reaction is exclusive, snotty and downright snobbish.
Restaurants so often let themselves down at the last by serving unimaginative or downright stodgy desserts.
Guilty of being vastly unoriginal, insipid, boring, and just downright horrible!
No other night of the year manages the unique combination of misery, discomfort, expense and sheer downright unpleasantness.
Other flies are downright lures, which look nothing like a natural but provoke a response when pulled fast past a feeding trout.
But now, if I forget my mobile at home, I feel downright nekkid until I get it back in my hot little hands.
They range from the downright common to the ultimate upper crust in Paul's eyes, and with every sketch the audience hugged itself with glee.
Most efforts seem to have been at best superficial, at worst downright non-existent.
Its lush harmonic arrangements conceal some vituperative and downright nasty lyrics, delivered in a deceptively deadpan manner.
The downright spooky supernatural aura enhances the staying power of this film in your mind.
Some of the questions were understandable, but others were downright spoony.
But if spraddle is a term which has never completely gone out of style, squinch is downright popular.
Clay had come to town with a challenge to Liston that was looked on as downright suicidal.
The Scottish experience in the past half-century has been a patchwork of success, spurned opportunities and downright failure.
Football chants are cruel, obscene, offensive, sometimes downright sick and often very funny.
To contact the Metropolitan Police is a frustrating experience of long delays, indifference, obstructiveness and even downright hostility.
Wanganui is that perfect balance of being hard case but not downright Carterton-level mongrel.
Like many human things, globalization can often be just downright unfair or carelessly vicious.
Lalita is played by the stunning Aishwarya Rai, who successfully conveys the character's combination of intelligence and downright stroppiness.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Had it been downright misery she would have looked about her with less of her exanimate glassiness.
We stumbled into the household at a crisis, and there was a deal of downright humanity in that same.
Tipped over by no maladroit handling of corkscrew, but downright deliberate intention!
In the first week of April, the badger's spring-cleaning began in downright earnest.
He is never downright intoxicated, and never free from the effects of liquor.
A sailor goes through more downright hard work on a blowy night than these fellows do in a year.
Life here is laborious, but downright want I should say rare.
For my part, I call that downright countenancing of iniquity.
As a rule the downright, headstrong, and impatient became reformers.
But Cedro says that savouriness considerations aside, it can be downright dangerous to consume seafood that is not in optimum condition.
Marjorie was downright in manner, plain in face, no flatterer.
And there is no doubt that for character, cheekiness and downright style, the 500 is hard to beat.
Handel's librettist, whoever he was, did his work downright badly.
And to describe them as wise men sounds to me like a downright contradiction in terms.
Twas downright madness to show six feet of flesh and blood, on a naked rock, to the raging savages.
Humphries's relationship with AbEx gesturalism is by turns disingenuously kittenish and downright slurry.
It were downright the darndest bit of foolery as ever I come across.
They range from the sublime to the downright ridiculous, with rank covers of Great Balls Of Fire and Help.
While it might be unexciting, it did seem downright peaceful.
Her voice was gruffer, her manner more downright, and she was inclined to patronize the more foolish virgin.
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