Sentence examples for downright generous from inspiring English sources
Apple operates internationally on the guarantee of user privacy; the terms of the FBI's demands will look downright generous compared to what Russia and China would probably ask Apple to do if it capitulates.
Compared to what other federal workers get, however, it's downright generous.
The exemptions range from extremely generous (Texas) to downright miserly (Delaware).
Finally, when it comes to Social Security, we're downright insecure: while Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Greece offer generous safety nets, the U.K and the U.S. are among the least generous, offering only around two-thirds of the average benefit for OECD countries.
But two notable incidents at World Cups perpetuate the myth among British football fans that South American sides are, to be generous, physical or, at worst, downright dirty.
More accurately, it confirmed the small but immensely rich host nation's retreat, under sustained pressure, from an activist foreign policy its neighbours viewed not only as irksome but as downright subversive.For the past decade Qatar had given quiet, generous and persistent support to the Muslim Brotherhood.
"People create perceptions of actors based on the parts they played so it might surprise some people to learn that contrary to some of the sterner(or downright scary) characters he played, Alan was extremely kind, generous, self-deprecating and funny," Radcliffe said.
Before the game I thought the 7.5 start given to Baltimore by the bookies was generous and after seeing that drive it's downright robbery.
Here we've assembled, as we do every year at this time, a generous sampling of the most far-fetched, distorted or downright fallacious claims made during 2015.
