Sentence examples for downright horrible from inspiring English sources

Some parts of America looked downright horrible.

"Some people are good and some are downright horrible," Ms. Kingsley said with a laugh.

The air across most of Lower Manhattan quickly returned to generally normal conditions, with periodic jumps in the levels of ash and soot, but remained downright horrible for weeks at the smoldering mound of ground zero itself.

Here are five of the lesser known - and downright horrible - diseases that mosquitoes can give you.

Most representations of gender in children's movies are downright horrible.

After many unsuccessful dates, some uninspiring and some downright horrible, Ross became disillusioned.

An example of such a wrong thing is given (source mercifully not provided): "In the Paralympic equestrian events, is it the horse or the rider who is disabled?" The point is not to control what you should and shouldn't say but rather to create an environment where people at least think about what they're saying before being horrible or downright offensive.

Announcing the award for best picture, Penn glanced at the winner's name on an envelope, paused, and said of the director: "Who gave this son of a bitch his green card?" The backlash against the joke was immediate, with outrage expressed online: "utterly disgusted", "downright racist and offensive", "absolutely horrible" and "joke or not, Sean Penn's green card comment was out of line".

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We, the cliché, Garfield-like zombies who insist that no one talk to us until we've burned our mouths with hot brown liquid each morning, assign the beverage an idiotic and downright Sisyphean task: Prevent the horrible sickness known as caffeine withdrawal (which includes constipation).

"It will naturally sound horrible when I say that Sibelius wrote downright poorly.