downright

Example Sentences

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It is Stokes' involvement in the latest episode that makes it all the more staggering, serious and downright stupid.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

"I've gotten used to it, but before, at the beginning, it was downright stressful."

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

So if you — like many in the financial media — are worried about private credit, you should be downright frightened by private equity.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

Diamond wrote this waltz-time weeper with Carole Bayer Sager, who beat him to the punch with her own recording; his version is haunted, hers downright macabre.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

And the meager fare at Mother Palmer’s boardinghouse up on the bluff was proving downright starvation inducing this year.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown