Sentence examples for downright old from inspiring English sources

Both of the Westchester malls undergoing major refurbishing are considered old by industry standards, with the Yonkers mall being "downright old," Ms. Duker said.

In these final five minutes, this younger Warriors team did the unthinkable and made the normally ageless Spurs veterans look downright old.

Though most of those in attendance were young and beautiful, many were middle-aged (though still beautiful) and several were downright old (ditto) — and yet everyone seemed to be in love with Mr. Tingsek's sweet falsetto and his band's Carribean-inflected funk and folk.

If his powers as a folk-pop humorist using rhymed couplets is undiminished and his bratty delivery pretty much the same as on his 1973 hit "Dead Skunk," his wit can go only so far to camouflage the lurking despair in lines like, "It's the 21st century and I'm downright old/ My seeds are spent and my loins are cold," from "The Here and the Now".

Though it may seem trite, pedestrian or downright old-fashioned, when it's executed well, it can be awfully good.

Compared with cellphone programming being made in Asia and Europe, the show's concept was downright old-fashioned.

The economy was stagnant and, with its rules against foreign ownership and insistence on keeping debts low, the professional soccer league Bundesliga seemed downright old-fashioned.

The public faces of the network, the most famous of whom is undoubtedly Ezra Levant, are known for their retrograde views on all manner of issues, from the slightly more radical for example, trans rights to the downright old-fashioned like that the Rold-fashioned like as such deserve respecthat

The American dubbing is done by Martin Sheen, as sobersided Emilio, and Matthew Modine as his son – but the winning turn is by veteran George Coe, as charismatic and often downright obnoxious old cynic Miguel.

And while I'm sure most of the recent admiration expressed for White is genuine, the tone of many tributes has been downright patronising towards older female actors.

For Brian Wong, the 21-year-old founder of Kiip, a mobile rewards company, the reaction was downright laughable: "I feel old!" A few years ago, Mr. Wong was described in the news media as the youngest person ever to receive venture capital funding.