Sentence examples for downright tragedy from inspiring English sources

This is a downright tragedy.

It is a story full of tragedy, pathos and not a little humour – to which you can add fair doses of hypocrisy and downright cowardice.

Downright Stengelian.

Downright unAmerican?

Schwed was downright dismissive.

He's downright... unexceptional.

Others sounded downright gloomy.

It seemed downright masochistic.

It's downright vandalistic.

It's downright outrageous.

Some are downright sympathetic.