Sentence examples for downright acceptable from inspiring English sources

Virginia E. Johnson, a writer, researcher and sex therapist who with her longtime collaborator, William H. Masters, helped make the frank discussion of sex in postwar America possible if not downright acceptable, died on Wednesday in St . Louis

(In The Boat That Rocked, a rape plot is presented as not just acceptable but downright hilarious).

The service was attentive, but the food ranged from the acceptable to the downright weird; the stewed papaya, spiced with mace, that accompanied my roast suckling pig suggested a sort of slimy pumpkin pie.

After all, one person might think that ten is acceptable but eleven is downright sleazy, while another could consider ten partners a year to be pretty restrained behavior.

Downright Stengelian.

Downright unAmerican?

It's downright vandalistic.

It's downright outrageous.

Schwed was downright dismissive.

He's downright... unexceptional.

Others sounded downright gloomy.