Sentence examples for downright rough from inspiring English sources
London is surely big enough, eclectic enough and downright rough enough itself for this hotel to be a winner.
But wait a second: Lots of gay men are tough guys -- muscular, aggressive, and downright rough.
The rooms of oil sketches, which will reward hours of honed discrimination, provide a nicely lulling setup for the thunderclap début of Courbet, whose titanic ambition and downright rudeness announce a rough-and-tumble new world that feels contemporary again in ways that will engage us when a Courbet retrospective, now in Paris, opens at the Met on February 27th.
The food, described as "refined farm-to-table New American," ranges from delicately urbane to rural rough-and-tumble — and much of it is downright delicious.
A fetishlike assortment of harnesses, visible seams, girdle straps and detachable yokes further roughed up collections that might otherwise have seemed ethereal or downright treacle-y.
Mr. Warchus, Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Reilly accordingly keep their audience in a state of aching laughter as Austin and Lee variously make nice, play rough, compete for the attentions of a smarmy movie producer (Robert LuPone) and turn downright homicidal.
But the rough-and-tumble of South Carolina politics reared its head again, and Haley endured a bruising – sometimes downright ugly – primary.
Schwed was downright dismissive.
He's downright... unexceptional.
