Example sentences for: downright

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

  • 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.

  • Frankly, I find most of them annoying and downright dorky.

  • Some downright peculiar results followed from this inference.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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