Example sentences for: downright

How can you use “downright” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Starr is batting "10 for 10" against presidential legal challenges, note Tim Russert ( Meet the Press ) and Fred Barnes ( Fox News Sunday ), proving that he's "not a rogue prosecutor" (Susan Page, Late Edition ). "The judge was downright scornful of the White House," adds Barnes.

  • 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.

  • But sector investing also tends to reward a successful corporation's competitors for that corporation's success, and in that sense seems not merely counterintuitive but downright perverse.

  • The story is also on the front of the LAT , alongside a picture of Albert that makes him look downright scary, and is the second lead at USAT .

  • In his memoir To End a War , U.N. ambassador nominee Richard Holbrooke calls Milosevic intelligent and downright affable.


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