Sentence examples for downright abusive from inspiring English sources

Over the past week, I've received hundreds of emails, Twitter messages and comments on my blog, ranging from supportive to downright abusive.

The angry, splenetic or downright abusive tone sometimes exhibited by those former fans of Richard Dawkins is a good example of this kind of feedback.

Lee himself has received more than 1,000 letters and e-mail messages, and while some have been supportive, most have been critical and some downright abusive.

In The Girl, the relationship moves from Pygmalion to Beauty and the Beast, before curdling into something more mutually destructive, if not downright abusive.

And without a smart family doctor or geriatrician who knows a patient well, it's hard for family members to figure out what improves comfort and function, and what is useless or overly aggressive or downright abusive.

She rejected the suggestion that watching from a grandstand is not quite embracing the spirit of the Hill, where the enjoinder to move along or sit down comes in many forms, from the polite to the downright abusive.

When I am feeling snarky, I think about people who are not particularly kind, loving, downright cruel and abusive, don't have relationship skills, don't seem overly appealing, who have loving and committed partners.

The texts sent and received by people who had just split up showed a full range of human emotion – from the heartbreaking, to the rude to the downright cold, and even some that were abusive.

Downright Stengelian.

Downright unAmerican?

Abusive bosses.