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Downright   /dˈaʊnrˌaɪt/   Listen
adverb
Downright  adv.  
1.
Straight down; perpendicularly.
2.
In plain terms; without ceremony. "We shall chide downright, if I longer stay."
3.
Without delay; at once; completely. (Obs.) "She fell downright into a fit."


adjective
Downright  adj.  
1.
Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way. "A man of plain, downright character."
2.
Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.
Synonyms: honest-to-goodness. "The downright impossibilities charged upon it." "Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity."





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"Downright" Quotes from Famous Books



... demands often made upon domestic architects, for it involves no downright contradictions. I am not asked to show how a house worth ten thousand dollars can be built for five, or to break the Golden Rule, or to change the multiplication table and the cardinal points of ...
— The House that Jill Built - after Jack's had proved a failure • E. C. Gardner
... hens a-layin'," she said one day. "I took half a dozen over to the minister's wife this mornin', and she was so pleased! She said it was sich a blessin' to have fresh eggs again. She was gittin' sick o' them she's been buyin' at Billings'. She was downright thankful." ...
— Kilo - Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt Book Agent • Ellis Parker Butler
... they keep alive zeal. Whereas people who change, except under strong conviction, (a thing now rather rare,) the religion of their early prejudices, especially if the conversion is brought about by any political machine, are very apt to degenerate into indifference, laxity, and often downright atheism. ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... insisting that the children shall go with him whenever they don't go with me; next thing will be to take them with him anyhow, and the idea of having Johnny and Flora brought up to believe that it is a mortal sin to be absent from Mass, even when the day is scalding hot, or piping cold! That is downright tyranny. I would never endure it! It is well I was never brought up a Catholic; they'd find a rebel in me, sure. All the priests, and Bishops, and the Pope, and a hundred like him, couldn't oblige me to go to church, if I was not a mind. And Althea, only think of it, your uncle, ...
— Hubert's Wife - A Story for You • Minnie Mary Lee
... of lemon than cream jugs are used. Cream is something of a nuisance, and if people don't take lemon they can take tea as Li Hung Chang does. For a guest to have a preference and emphasize it, is downright rude. To be asked to a lady's house is glory enough for any one. The grumbler can go to a restaurant and take a cup and drink ...
— Breakfasts and Teas - Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions • Paul Pierce


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