downright
down rahyt
- s characterized by plain blunt honesty
a downright answer
a downright kind of person - s complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
a downright lie - r thoroughgoing
- It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited .
- Some school boards are beginning to get downright unreasonable about requirements for a high school diploma.
- Edward's critics claim his feats are merely illusions created by standard magicians' ploys--helped along, they charge, by a few tactics that are downright underhanded.