Others may be downright dangerous.
Compared with that of Yahoo, Affymetrix's performance may seem downright mediocre.
Not all scholars will be careful in their analyses, and some may be downright stupid.
In a market where many consider $2.99 a lot to pay for an iPhone application, $14.99 may seem downright steep.
Reaching deals with Indian bureaucrats and Chinese mandarins set to defend the interests and the data of their countries' rapidly growing online firms may be downright impossible.
At that price you may feel downright proud about devoting your attention to the app instead of your child, the next time both of you are out in public.
"Extracting the untapped value of one's home is more expensive and may be downright risky if the housing market continues to cool," said Chris Rupkey, an economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in New York.
And some so-called green fashion may be downright silly, like the Goyard canvas shopping tote shown in the Barneys "Have a Green Holiday" catalog: the bag is $1,065, plus $310 for painted monogramming of a triangular recycle symbol in gold.
Users have resorted to tweetstorms (which won't work as well and may become downright incomprehensible now that Twitter is moving from a chronological to algorithmic timeline) and screenshots of text.
In fact, it may be downright easy.
