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Downrightly

Downright \Down"right`\, a.

  1. Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.

    A man of plain, downright character.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.

    Syn: honest-to-goodness. [1913 Webster]

    The downright impossibilities charged upon it.
    --South.

    Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity.
    --Prescott. -- Down"right`ly, adv. -- Down"right`ness, n.