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Example sentences for: downright
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Aside from the fact that the accusation is simply false--Powell strikes me as downright visionary about politics, portraying the American involvement in World War II in A Time To Be Born as a media war much like Grenada--it is yet another time-honored way of dismissing women's work.
Throughout all these sayings, a downright judgmental tone can be heard, summed up in the old Cornish last word, Theer tes [it is] an' caan't be no tesser!
And some are downright sad.
Blum not only fails to share these explanations, but also sometimes repeats ones that are downright wrong--such as that men die young because the species needs them less.
Putting outright, downright grammatical solecisms aside, it would be pertinent to reiterate my own attitude toward usage: as a linguist, I regard usage clinically and would no more criticize a writer or a speaker of any kind of English for “mistakes” than a doctor would criticize a patient for contracting appendicitis or the Malay waste-away; on the other hand, as a writer (albeit a poor one), I attend to matters of style (which includes usage and grammar, of course), not only in others' writing but my own.
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