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adverb

Downright adv.

Straight down; perpendicularly.

In plain terms; without ceremony. "We shall chide downright, if I longer stay."

Without delay; at once; completely. (Obs.) "She fell downright into a fit."

adjective

Downright adj.

Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way. "A man of plain, downright character."

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

... seemed to want to take the job, and so I took it, and I flatter myself that I made a pretty good job of it. The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... Inn and stepped within The Bar and read the "Times;" And never such a treat, as—the epistle of one "Vetus,"[42] Had he found save in downright crimes: "Though I doubt if this drivelling encomiast of War Ever saw a field fought, or felt a scar, Yet his fame shall go farther than he can guess, For I'll keep him a place in my hottest Press; 130 And his works shall be bound in Morocco ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. - Poetry • George Gordon Byron

... the right fellows for this work—a work wholly anomalous, unlike all other work that they have thought of in many respects—they will think that what I say is reasonable, and like the prospect all the better (I think) because they see that it means downright work in a cheery, happy, hopeful, ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... pain in felling the rest of my story; although I am sure I can warn you against any intentional impropriety on the part of my temporary ward, Julia Mannering. But I must still earn my college nickname of Downright Dunstable. In one word, then, ...

— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

... "To be downright plain, yes, I do. Mis' Slogan, ef she is yore sister, an' I've thought many a time 'at ef I wus in yore place I wouldn't feel safe nuther. They say a pusson sometimes gits softenin' o' the brain frum hatin' folks an' livin' alone like she does. I'd be afeerd ...

— Westerfelt • Will N. Harben

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