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Example sentences for: downright

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He is downright silly to claim that Meinungsfreiheit (it should be one word and capitalized, as all German nouns are), Weltreise (obviously not Wettreise, which would mean a trip to make a bet--only Phileas Fogg combined the two), and Freizeit have now found a place in the world of linguistic glasnost.
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.
3: Our genes, though perhaps not real smart, aren't downright stupid . Here we come, at last, to the true absurdity of familial love.
Such a price ceiling is downright reassuring compared to the world of, say, print publishing--in which a newsstand browse yields magazines ranging from $2 to $20 per issue.
Michiko Kakutani seems downright irritated: "The volume is basically a case of a skilled writer lazily using his sleight of hand to toss off what (with two or three exceptions) are pure exercises in craft" (the New York Times ). (Find out more about author Amis on the New York Times ' "Featured Author" page.)