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Example sentences for: downright
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The WP and NYT especially capture the sense in which she broke Soviet ground as a political wife: less dowdy, more fashion-conscious, if not downright materialistic (with her own American Express card, the Times reminds).
And I believe it's very helpful to have terms to distinguish the tools that you find useful from the ones you feel are counterproductive or downright pernicious.
In his memoir To End a War , U.N. ambassador nominee Richard Holbrooke calls Milosevic intelligent and downright affable.
But serial monogamy has a big downside not shared by polygamy: Lots of kids get reared either without fathers or with stepfathers, who often lack the Darwinian devotion of a biological father--and who may even be downright hostile.
They fell into three main categories: words for fools, idlers, and wastrels; for people with other undesirable or downright anti-social attributes; and for those with some physical disability.
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