Sentence examples for downright careless from inspiring English sources

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To lose two is downright careless.

Surrendering the lead to lose to one former employer is unfortunate, doing it twice within the space of three days is downright careless.

The tackling was tenacious and, at times, downright careless, leading to early bookings for Hanley, McGeady and his Ireland team-mate, Jeff Hendrick.

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To have one player sin-binned for two minutes – an eternity when you are on the back foot – might seem unfortunate but to have two dismissed within seconds of each other in an Olympic semi-final is not so much careless as downright moronic.

We have been astounded at the number of ignorant, careless and downright dishonest realtors, mortgage brokers, escrow officers, etc. who are in a position to do great harm to consumers.

However, I did find it easier to write about some of his more careless behavior, more sloppiness of action and downright silly ideas, now that he cannot read it.

Careless turnovers.

Careless fumbles.

Downright Stengelian.

Downright unAmerican?

Careless mistakes.

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