downright

Example Sentences

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It is Stokes' involvement in the latest episode that makes it all the more staggering, serious and downright stupid.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

So if you — like many in the financial media — are worried about private credit, you should be downright frightened by private equity.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

But lately its stock market returns have been downright weak.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

One moment the music envelops us in a mysterious hush and then it is downright jaunty.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

If so, then she was obviously a surprise to them, by the suspicion and downright hostility with which the deacons’ wives were surveying her from feathered hat to slippered toe.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare