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Sentence count:125+6Posted:2017-03-20Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: absolutecompleteentireplainpositivethoroughtotalutterSimilar words: unrighteoushuman rightsrightuprightoutrightall rightbrightlyright awayMeaning: adj. 1. characterized by plain blunt honesty 2. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers. adv. thoroughgoing. 
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91. She freely admitted that many devout ministers and professors in times past had enjoyed downright revelation.
92. We're talking sweaty palms, heart palpitations - I was downright petrified.
93. While melting in the Arctic might cause problems for plants and animals at lower latitudes, it's creating a downright sunny situation for Arctic biota.
94. Sometimes they can be cantankerous, mean - spirited, unkind, and sometimes downright cruel.
95. There is nothing the lower orders like better than a little downright good - humoured rating.
96. While several of the finalists in our ReBurbia design competition tended towards the surreal, a few futuristic entries took an approach that was downright dystopian.
97. That man was not a downright , hardhearted criminal by any means.
98. It was audacious of him to tell me a downright lie.
99. In fact, the postseason drought in Houston is becoming downright Saharan.
100. The Power Nap Puking - Puking is probably the world's ickiest form of generating relief, but it is downright effective.
101. You be downright psychic over the moon September 4. Take seriously any stirrings you pick up.
102. This bill is mean. It is downright low-down. What does it profit a great nation to conquer the world, only to lose its soul?
103. In fact, as more and more nations and individuals militarize the online world, it seems downright likely that some major online atom bomb will detonate at some point in the near-future.
104. Companies such as FedEx (FDX) and Amazon weren't instant hits with a skeptical -- or downright dismissive -- investment community.
105. Battles waged on the web are often "downright ant-like," with massive, networked groups engaging in strategic teamwork to rise up with little hierarchy.
106. Her parents, if not downright folksy , were hardly highfalutin.
107. But unveiling Chien - Ming Wang for the closing act of this crosstown rivalry was downright mean - spirited.
108. If my boyfriend decides to be romantic first thing in the morning, or in the middle of the night — I can be downright snarly.
109. But now China has more worldwide clout, and public opinion at home has taken on a combative (and sometimes downright jingoistic) tone.
110. It is unnecessary to expatiate on the effect of this downright refusal of the woman's proposals.
111. The pomposity, the pretence, the downright idiocy: all are gagging for the Dada treatment.
112. His jejune approach to decision-making - know yourself but not necessarily the facts - is downright repellent.
113. I'll admit, awk doesn't have a very pretty or particularly "hip" name, and the GNU version of awk, called gawk, sounds downright weird.
114. But compared to the hostile and tense atmosphere surrounding American-Iranian relations today, U.S.-Soviet relations at the dawn of political liberalization inside the USSR were downright friendly.
115. The response I have received to my articles about them, and my espousal of these beliefs, has been, for the most part, pretty hostile(http://Sentencedict.com), and sometimes downright nasty.
116. Actually, he'll go from downright belligerent to being as benefic as can be.
117. It's a kind of a downright, no-nonsense, let's-get-on-with-it kind of tone that, after reading Derrida and other writers of that kind, you're perhaps not quite ready for. In a way it's bracing.
118. The approaches may be crude (well, downright moronic in most cases) and repetitive, but such energy!
119. Not long ago , selling American cars in Japan was downright quixotic.
120. I was — I admit it — rather dashing — a man about town if not a downright cad.
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