Sentence examples for downright selfish from inspiring English sources

There was a time when the sight of Cook at the crease could provoke thoughts that were unpatriotic, unworthy and downright selfish.

Deep down, we all know that hugeness is medically dangerous and, with a little thought, downright selfish; just ask anyone sitting next to a huge person on a subway or airplane.

There's Adam's girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard), an artist — but art is headstrong, defiant, self-righteous, even downright selfish, and it's no stretch to figure out that the artist Adam loves may be trouble.

Newly-released stills suggest the films will stick closely to the look of Frank Miller's 1986 comic, which introduced a moodier, damaged, morally dubious and often downright selfish Batman.

At first, it may feel a bit canned, but the point is to break the ice — not to carry your fumbling, lazy, or downright selfish ass from seduction to completion.

I've been sad, irresponsible with money, dishonest, angry, and downright selfish in sobriety.

Rude, selfish and downright ornery -- you could be all these things.

A Manhattan ob-gyn obsessed with reality TV, Lahiri was reflexively selfish, sometimes downright delusional, her internal monologue eternally threatening to spill over into full-on clinical narcissism.

Has there ever been an actor so willing to present himself, baldly and unblushingly, as a fatuous, selfish, porcine and downright pathetic specimen of homo erectus?

This might be unremarkable if the fear was about spiders or heights, but when it is about immigration policy, or the strategies of elected politicians, or directly impacts the citizens (who already report abuse and attack on the streets) of a society, disregarding facts is not just foolish and selfish, it's downright dangerous.

There's no mystery, really, about why she would choose to portray so many selfish, conniving, amoral, downright malevolent human beings: any actor who doesn't know that, say, Lady Macbeth and Iago are pretty good parts should probably consider a different line of work.