Sentence examples for downright failure from inspiring English sources

"This is not a mere inconvenience — it is a downright failure of the democratic process".

What is happening for these two teams is not necessarily going to happen to other clubs with histories of collapse or mediocrity or downright failure.

In what some people see as a new sign of government complacency at best and downright failure at worst, officials say there are enough protective kits for only 60 percent of the population, and supplies are dwindling fast.

By contrast, The Hurt Locker has brought in a meager $16 million, which, by Hollywood standards, makes it a downright failure (barely scraping by its production budget of $15 million).

And we need to view our mistakes as areas for improvement rather than downright failures.

Timing vis a vis Katrina is downright eerie…." It's important to note that most of the failures in protecting New Orleans and nearby communities from the ravages attending Hurricane Katrina had little to do with forecasting questions.

The simple, but not necessarily the right answer to explain the comparative failure of an opera crammed fuller with Puccinian melody than any other, is that the libretto is a downright muddle.

A commercial failure, the film and her performance generated a negative response; critic Sonia Chopra commented, "[Balan] is made to look downright drab.

Downright Stengelian.

Downright unAmerican?

Schwed was downright dismissive.