The Collaborative International Dictionary
Downrightly
Downright \Down"right`\, a.
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Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.
A man of plain, downright character.
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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.