Use "downright" in a sentence

1. Did I mention that? I downright hated the damn things and had forbidden my two children from ever having them

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2. The reception office was unassuming, if not downright unattractive

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3. As long as she was in the main thoroughfare it would be difficult if not downright foolhardy for anyone to attack her … but there was a stretch just the other side of the river where the pedestrian path separated from the road, sloping down into a sort of culvert … a subway … if I were going to ambush someone, that’s where I’d choose

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4. There was a bathroom that was downright swank compared to the compost cans on the poop deck that most riverboats have

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5. You can’t really argue with that without appearing downright ungrateful – underhand of him – but he’s a lawyer -

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6. That level of ignorance was downright terrifying

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7. downright foolhardy here in the mountains

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8. It bears the evident marks of having originally been, what the honest and downright Doctor Douglas assures us it was, a scheme of fraudulent debtors to cheat their creditors

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9. It was considered inauspicious and downright dangerous to go much near Wolf-skull Cave these days, what with the stories of lights and unexplained disappearances related by several in Solitude

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10. As the nights progressed from just chilly to downright cold, I was sure the porch wouldn’t be

11. The most recent glaring example of the ineptitude (or downright hostility) of the Obama regime ran something as follows

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12. How else describe the arrogance, hubris, and downright lust for power a la the second Messiah that infests the Obamas and their senior minions in the ant hill (or is it termite mound) that has remade our nation"s capital? Recall that in the mid 1960"s J

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13. “This is not a joke and things don’t look very good for you at the moment in fact they are looking downright bleak

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14. It dawned on him how downright absurd this was

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15. You can then well imagine my astonishment, not to say downright horror, as I read his latest column saying flat out that Obama cannot be defeated in 2012

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16. If you attempt to call them on their personnel, programs, and policies, you will inevitably be put off, if not downright lied to, for liberalism itself has become, over the years, a touchy subject for those of the left

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17. Of course we were all insensitive, if not downright cruel to him afterward, and he really should have stuck to his story of merely passing out

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18. I don't know if this actually happened, but I do know that no one was allowed to smoke near their air compressors, and they got very fatherly if not downright violent if that rule was broken

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19. Changing the plans is seen as fraudulent behaviour and arrogant if not downright disrespectful

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20. Particularly had Johnson's impeachment been earlier over his actual abuses of power, the precedent would have made it more difficult to use impeachment for such utterly frivolous and absurd cases as impeaching Clinton for lying about oral sex, or downright surreal and delusional birth certificate theories about Obama

21. It was downright astonishing that the man simply peered through the sand and found a spot where water could be found barely two feet deep

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22. Yesterday Fred had gotten splashed in the crotch, and it had been windy and cool, downright uncomfortable it was

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23. In fact, compared to the books from Mantis, it was downright plain

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24. We SHOULD display the fruit of the Spirit while we are outside of our homes, but don't "relax" at home! Your home is your greatest ministry! If you are going to be "real" anywhere, PLEASE be real at home! How many couples scream at each other on the way to church, then go in and sing "Blest Be The Tie That Binds"? How many times have we disrespected our husbands or neglected our children, yet how sweetly we talk to "Sister Sarah" on the phone about how she can better her walk with God?? We have this idea that it is okay to be rude and downright self-centered in our homes, but we would never speak that way to our preacher

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25. Only this time, the feeling wasn’t as sensual and alluring as it was with Levi, it was downright painful

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26. Nothing! Can you imagine such a preposterous outcome? Why, it is downright barbaric

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27. on misinformation and downright ignorance of what the United

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28. It was with a feeling of downright pleasure that he took his place in yet another queue at the immigration desk, passing through without any

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29. Now Smythe became downright chatty

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30. parent came forward saying that she downright did not like Karen and requested that her child

31. Of course it's hard! You have years of waste, self-indulgence, wrong thinking and downright laziness to put right

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32. What I’m reiteratng is that it’s downright unethical to present those kinds of

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33. At last he exhaled a long, low whistle—the note he hit was downright sorrowful

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34. The gods hadn’t been kind to him and, in his myopic view, it was downright unfair that he was now facing disciplinary action, a loss of a plum assignment to London and the humiliation of getting his security clearance suspended---not to mention the not-so friendly chats he was forced to endure with the department shrinks to explain he was, in fact, quite sane

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35. Down deep in his heart he regarded the whole performance as a little childish, if not downright foolish

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36. Was this an encouragement, or a downright insult? I couldn’t find out, and I didn’t have enough time to read his aura

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37. , said in an interview with the popular cultural magazine “Where the Roots Come From” in 290 that “I am a Uola man from Atileten who loves his culture and history more than anyone else’s, but it would be downright unprofessional of me not to acknowledge that other civilizations had running water centuries ago while my people were still figuring out how to wipe their bottoms”

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38. Nancy finally called it quits after nearly one hour of exercising at a rhythm and intensity that Farah found downright infernal

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39. Those blue things are downright mean critters – others may say they’re just tough birds –

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40. can downright count on it

41. She, too, wound up with a better offer and management was downright shocked when she presented her letter of resignation

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42. It was downright repulsive

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43. I had and still have a profound admiration for that incredibly brave and capable woman and I find your prejudiced view on this quite myopic, if not to say downright stupid

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44. The day had gotten downright hot by Nassau standards, but manageable with the sunshade that covered the terrace

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45. � Sending an agent out with no money on top of that was downright implausible

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46. � You are too damned precious, downright irreplaceable actually, to risk your life like that

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47. “Because I could touch it? With my feet?” she suggested, with a downright fearless look in her eyes

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48. Their immaculate tailoring probably concealed a variety of weapons and body armor as well as a physique honed for defense, if not downright killing

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49. The popular mood in Japan is now downright ugly, with unanimous calls for revenge

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50. Jennifer realized at once the amount of violence and deaths this probably meant and shook her head in disgust: she was no angel, but this was a downright stupid and needless display of violence that could lead nowhere

51. In comparison, our other case is downright benign

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52. they are put into not-terribly-interesting (and sometimes downright

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53. everything that they believed was downright stupidity on his behalf

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54. If this weren't terrifying, it would be downright humiliating

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55. Having seen and used a number of times the incredibly advanced computers used by the Time Patrol, the American computer technology of 1957 ‘C’ felt downright like stone age stuff to her

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56. The information that the medical community is preaching regarding saturated fats is downright criminal, yet they continue to broadcast lies and we allow it to happen

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57. I find it downright amazing how people seem to forget, when on the safe terrain of their mother tongue, what a struggle the foreign language is for the other person

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58. Helga was downright thrilled when after a few minutes a

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59. So funny it was downright depressing as hell

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60. It’s a great boon to the plain Jane and the downright ugly, I’ll tell you! Kind of a payback for all those centuries of taking a back seat to the fair of face and form

61. Being stuck in traffic is a very lame and downright unforgivable excuse

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62. The medic stood at the sidelines throughout, wearing an expression that alternated between disapproval and downright horror

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63. And what would they all say after such a beautiful ceremony? It would be downright rude not to stay dead

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64. In fact–and as expected–she’d been downright belligerent

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65. The church was full, the Sunday-school well attended, the Sabbath was kept holy, the women were one and all sober and thrifty, the men were fairly satisfactory except on Saturday nights, there was no want, little sickness, and very seldom downright sin

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66. The expression downright sin is Mrs

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67. Letting us delve so far into the depths of the caverns is downright irresponsible on his part

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68. An attitude that was chilly all along, but grew downright frigid after the huge fight they had when he decided to discipline me with a belt when I was nine

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69. Now he was not one to use sarcasm under normal circumstances but morose, inefficient and downright ignorant shop assistants really hit a raw nerve with him

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70. it's downright more fun and more interesting than making figure-

71. It's downright efficient to

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72. Away from the general population where she was a shoe-in for mental torture, and downright physical abuse

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73. room, he was downright paranoid in the middle of the Oval

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74. I did have to admit though that my grandfather’s hiding place for the knowledge of our ancestors had been ingenious if not downright brilliant

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75. “She has done nothing but try to care for you and you’ve been downright nasty to her

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76. After a while it got downright hot

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77. But it wasn't her and his mood fell from excited to downright irritated

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78. "But what most of all made me hold my hand and even abandon all idea of finishing it was an argument I put to myself taken from the plays that are acted now-a-days, which was in this wise: if those that are now in vogue, as well those that are pure invention as those founded on history, are, all or most of them, downright nonsense and things that have neither head nor tail, and yet the public listens to them with delight, and regards and cries them up as perfection when they are so far from it; and if the authors who write them, and the players who act them, say that this is what they must be, for the public wants this and will have nothing else; and that those that go by rule and work out a plot

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79. Above all, he dwelt upon what he had seen in the cave of Montesinos; for though Master Pedro's ape had told him that of those things part was true, part false, he clung more to their truth than to their falsehood, the very reverse of Sancho, who held them all to be downright lies

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80. Two men with a heavy rope-fender would have been better, but even the other one might have made all the difference between a very damaging accident and downright disaster

81. He neither spoke nor loosed his hold for some five minutes, during which period he bestowed more kisses than ever he gave in his life before, I dare say: but then my mistress had kissed him first, and I plainly saw that he could hardly bear, for downright agony, to look into her face! The same conviction had stricken him as me, from the instant he beheld her, that there was no prospect of ultimate recovery there---she was fated, sure to die

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82. He shrugged his shoulders: shook himself, indeed, as if his flesh crept with aversion; and thrust back his chair; while I got up, and opened my mouth, to commence a downright torrent of abuse

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83. which had been shut in downright stupidity

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84. “You can be downright spooky, ya know?”

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85. "The poor fellow has saved his scalp," said Hawkeye, coolly passing his hand over the head of David; "but he is a proof that a man may be born with too long a tongue! 'Twas downright madness to show six feet of flesh and blood, on a naked rock, to the raging savages

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86. I use the word natural, in the sense of its being unaffected; there was something comic in his distraught way, as though it would have been downright ludicrous but for his own perception that it was very near being so

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87. In a sulky triumph, Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us, in a more and more offensive degree, until he became downright intolerable

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88. And the meager fare at Mother Palmer’s boarding-house up on the bluff was proving downright starvation inducing this year

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89. It was only hours later, when the sun had begun to decline in the west and Joe had finally grown downright chilly on deck, that he retreated into the bowels of the ship, starting to get his sea legs, looking for the rest of the boys and food

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90. the sex, she remarked, that no description could paint up to the life, the mixture of pique, confusion and disappointment, that appeared in his countenance, joined to the mournful exclamation: "By heavens, a woman!" This at once opened her eyes, which had been shut in downright stupidity

91. But she carried the child through its time with a minimum of discomfort, was downright common—ladies should suffer more

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92. It ain’t always losin’ someone nor hard times nor high taxes nor even downright starvation

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93. And as I grew older his disapproval of me became downright dislike, which, I admit, I did little to change

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94. They took her at her own valuation and endured much at her hands, her airs, her graces, her tempers, her arrogance, her downright rudeness and her frankness about their shortcomings

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95. "He's downright ill!" observed Nastasya, not taking her eyes off him

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96. From certain angles, it looked downright ungrateful

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