What is "downright"

Usage examples of "downright".

Altus stood up and strode across the floor of his office, the burden of his job during these days of generation gap, antiestablishment, racial tensions and downright rebellion deepening the lines of his face.

Tunborelarba of the Arba waved all four hands for quiet and proceeded to open the solemn convocation with a pugnacious, if not downright martial, paean to the virtues of the Great Hive.

But in the very cramped quarters aboard the schooner he was using to supervise the landing of his troops at Bayou Bienvenu, his movements had become downright cautious.

I understand it, the French officers who oversee the construction are strongly Bonapartist, in others hesitant or downright for the King.

Lou Calabrese smiled, Jack was surprised to see, her face went from being merely pretty to downright beautiful, something he had never before had occasion to notice, since Lou generally wore a look of extreme dissatisfaction while watching him perform the role of Detective Logan.

I would persuade all Jews, Mohammedans, Comtists, and freethinkers to turn high Anglicans, or better still, downright Catholics for a week in every year, and I would send people like Mr.

Once he recovered from his surprise, Dominick had proven to be downright nice.

In some of these birth-mills a full-term parturition, or even a fetiparous one, can be downright dangerous, believe me.

There were times, I thought, when Hardanger could be downright unpleasant.

Firm of Inchling, Pennergate, and Radnor: a respectable City merchant indeed, whom Dudley could read-off in a glimpse of the downright contrast to his partner.

Upton, he was too much frightened just before and after his leaving that place, to draw any other conclusions from thence, than that poor Jones was a downright madman: a conceit which was not at all disagreeable to the opinion he before had of his extraordinary wildness, of which, he thought, his behaviour on their quitting Gloucester so well justified all the accounts he had formerly received.

The action, such as it was, revolved around the Emperor Drone-on, played by Laevo himself, whose long-winded speeches invariably descended from pompous philosophizing into downright idiocy, while at the same time managing to ridicule all those around him.

Mark chewed gently on his lip, his brows drawn down in a momentarily downright Milesian expression of furious thought.

I am right, during that period birds are to be found no where in abundance, and a man must be a downright Audubon to be willing to go mountain-stalking--the hardest walking in the world, by the way--purely for the sake of learning the habits of friend Scolopax, with no hope of getting a good bag after all.

Actually, I thought death was just a bit creepy, and I though Spiro was downright subterranean.