Sentence examples for downright racist from inspiring English sources

"downright racist" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to describe something as unambiguously or extremely racist. Example: "The politician's remarks were not just offensive, but downright racist, causing outrage among many members of the community."

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She becomes disapproving, then downright racist.

"The use of stereotypical 'war whoop chants' and 'tomahawk chops' are offensive and downright racist.

Only in Britain is a broad understanding of your nation's past regarded as anti-European, if not downright racist.

Pick up the local newspaper and you were certain to read reports, features or letters which were offensive or threatening or downright racist.

The principal chief of the Cherokee Nation had asked the senator to apologize for what he called the "downright racist" gestures of Brown supporters at a campaign event Saturday in Dorchester, Mass.

In that campaign and again in his 1990 battle with Harvey Gantt, the black former mayor of Charlotte, Mr Helms set new standards for destructive and downright racist advertising.Mr Helms never got more than 55% of the vote in five election campaigns.

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He was called an ideologue (by conservatives and liberals alike), a eugenicist, a racist and downright evil.

He gives you all you need to take stock of the identity-based, racist, and downright Darwinian trap that still haunts the French Left and, as part of that stock-taking, to trace the long and unfortunately very powerful genealogy of the tendency to define the oppressed by their origins, to bind them up in their skin color and ethnicity, and, in short, to mimic the racism of the extreme Right.

They are thought to be open to bribery, as well as being racist, corrupt and often downright criminal.

Amongst all the mildly racist, reactionary, and sometimes downright ridiculous scandal mongering on A Current Affair, there was the occasional nugget of gold.

Clinton summed up by stating Trump has "a long history of racist behavior," and that his birther crusade was downright insulting to Barack Obama.

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