Sentence examples for downright rejection from inspiring English sources

Scott P. Harris still suffered taunts and jibes, dumb or cruel redhead jokes, and apathy or downright rejection from women.

But such attempts to avoid rejection are downright manipulative.

In fact, it seems downright un-American to begrudge our fighter pilots their pinups an unfair rejection of a national military ritual that dates back to the Memphis Belle and the WWII bombers.

In Britain, they reflect the 1980s and 1990s' rejection of high-rise modernism, and a revived attachment to supposed vernacular architecture that often comes out looking downright kitsch.

Downright Stengelian.

Downright unAmerican?

He received rejection after rejection.

Schwed was downright dismissive.

He's downright... unexceptional.

Others sounded downright gloomy.

It seemed downright masochistic.