Sentence examples for it is downright foolish from inspiring English sources

"But," cautioned Hodgson, "it is downright foolish to think we are through.

Simply pricing your product based on how much it costs you to make it is downright foolish: The price you set determines, to a large extent, the perceived quality of your product.

And it's downright foolish to use bedside manner evaluations as the only assessment of a doctor's effectiveness (which is what we currently do for teaching evaluations).

And to do it without an honest dialogue is downright foolish.

TEMPTING fate is never wise; tempting a flu pandemic is downright foolish.

Deborah Tannen -- a linguist at Georgetown, who, with her book "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation," may have overtaken Noam Chomsky and become the best-known linguist in America -- contends that broad theorizing about uptalk is downright foolish.

They believe it would be downright foolish for Democrats to give up their best leverage when Republicans have so far shown little inclination to cooperate with them or Mr. Obama on major legislation.

There will be many who say that for $400 you could buy a full-sized basic laptop running Vista and that to spend the same amount of money on this thing would be downright foolish.

But she was downright foolish to get sucked into Trump's racist, misogynistic game.

I think to undertake a third war in the Middle East would be downright foolish.

With all of the evidence out there, denying that climate change is not only foolish, it is downright dangerous.