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Example sentences for: downright

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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.
Why, that's downright un-American!
My response to all this was quietly but pointedly to let them know that I considered their manner to be amateurish at best and downright insulting at worst.
Shaw, on the hand, had a strangely static understanding of language: he was downright parochial and more than a little snobbish about spoken English and how an alphabet should standardize it.
And sometimes ironically or defiantly people will call themselves by names intended to be pejorative or downright insulting, as when African Americans call each other nigger or Jews of Odessa call one of their folk heroes Poltorazhida `Yid-and-a-half.