Sentence examples for downright silly from inspiring English sources

This is downright silly.

"Dreams are sometimes downright silly.

Trashy, yes, and even downright silly.

Some of it is downright silly.

Quite a few readers of Robertson Davies would tell Mr. McCaffery he's just downright silly.

He dismissed one episode as a "tepid dish of the blindingly obvious and the downright silly".

Quite a few fans of Bruce Springsteen would tell Miss Godwin she's just downright silly.

From far away, ballet can seem decorative, remote, and downright silly.

More important, the concept of a Hamas peace plan is downright silly.

The administration bombarded Republican senators with arguments that ranged from disingenuous to downright silly.

The critic B. R. Myers has singled this passage out as "uninvolving" and "downright silly".