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"downright offensive" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is extremely offensive or shocking. It is often used to emphasize the seriousness or intensity of the offensive behavior or language. Example: "The comedian's jokes were downright offensive and left many audience members feeling uncomfortable and upset."
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Team Trump tried to go on the offense again, but wound up being just downright offensive, with a new ad on Hillary Clinton's health that is so sleazy it makes you want to wash your eyeballs after viewing it.
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"Some men's magazines are just downright offensive," she says.
I shudder to watch interviewers who think it clever to be snide, supercilious, or downright offensive.
Young black men wouldn't be wrong to find My Brother's Keeper downright offensive.
(Indeed, some of Lorca's depictions of the peasantry cross the border from patronising to downright offensive).
That kind of behaviour is at best offputting, and at worst downright offensive and intimidating.
When Wilson did not oblige, Short denounced some of his appointments as "downright offensive".
Early yesterday, seniors across the country staged protests in their retirement communities, calling the trend downright offensive.
But the strutting patriarchal attitudes his type embodies seem anachronistic, if not downright offensive to younger audiences.
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