Sentence examples for downright vicious from inspiring English sources

Others called it downright vicious.

That is Bachmann's problem: she can be downright vicious and she seems to have little regard for honesty.

While punters have bought tickets for the ballet with reasonable enthusiasm, critics' reactions have ranged from politely enthusiastic to downright vicious.

To accept the view of 1863 to mean that today law-enforcement officials could use information gleaned in their investigations to sue as informers for their own profit, would make the law a downright vicious and corrupting one.

They are likely to become downright vicious as broadcast firms like ABC and Fox push for more "retransmission" fees from cable and satellite firms.There is a good deal more discussion about the internet.

I'm only 27, but I have endured reactions that ranged from the quizzical to the downright vicious when I mention that I entertain the idea of remaining child free.

A few are downright ugly, even vicious, like one written on brown cardboard that a man paraded around the park on Sunday.

The power tripping can be vicious or downright ugly but that's not to say that all C/Os are that way.

At times it gets downright mean, with regular vicious personal attacks on people like former President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

The less harmful among them can tend to the comic, while the more vicious can be downright terrifying.

I've seen vicious, political, angry, activistic and downright weird theatre at all of those venues, theatre that actively challenges the status quo, criticises the structure our society rests on, shocks or offends or makes me want to riot.