downright
Example Sentences
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Put it all together, and the modern Dodgers have found a way to make the Evil Empire Yankees look downright destitute.
But decades on from that firestorm, parts of the scandal seem downright quaint.
He seemed to take a more severe view of the financial consequences, writing that the credit-card business could become downright unprofitable if these changes were to get enacted.
From MarketWatch
One season without a trophy is major woe for Guardiola and City, two would be downright unthinkable.
From BBC
It could be argued that the Surrealist impulse—primitive, mysterious, downright weird—isn’t modern but as old as art itself.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
