Sentence examples for downright mistaken from inspiring English sources
For Devlin, then, to say, as the Wolfendon Committee does, that there is an area of the morality and immorality that is not the law's business is not just 'crude' and 'brief'; it is downright mistaken.
I can't blame her for clamping down, although her claims that Frank hated bootlegs passionately seem wildly exaggerated, if not downright mistaken.
People should be asked to look no further than the internet and be expected to make decisions on the information they obtain, even if bizarre or downright mistaken.
To extrapolate from this, however, that intervention in other people's revolutions or civil wars has a noble future, or even that the "international community" has a moral obligation to assist in the overthrow of authoritarian or dictatorial leaders everywhere, would be not just mistaken, but downright dangerous.
Among these, some will be genuinely mistaken attributions or identifications, others will be downright forgeries.
If you're not willing to humiliate yourself, make mistakes and downright fuck-up, you should consider working in a cubicle farm.
Valiant attempts and no mistake, gents, but downright feeble when compared with Andy Morrison's seemingly irrefutable response: "The answer must be Port Vale," he declares.
There were some delightful entries (I particularly like the cafe chain Apostrophe misusing an apostrophe, although that is, strictly speaking, more a punctuation mistake than a grammatical one) and some downright depressing ones.
And we need to view our mistakes as areas for improvement rather than downright failures.
This year, they made flawless ball movement, mistake-free execution and selfless team play feel downright ice-creamy.
