downright

Example Sentences

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The average price target of around $860, meanwhile, makes Morgan Stanley’s $775 call look downright bearish.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

"There is a degree of scepticism, or even downright cynicism, creeping in at the edges," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Let’s be clear, the breast cancer statistics for women are downright frightening: One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Yet consumers are downright gloomy about their finances nowadays, for one key reason: Most can’t afford to buy a home.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026

If so, then she was obviously a surprise to them, by the suspicion and downright hostility with which the deacons’ wives were surveying her from feathered hat to slippered toe.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare