Sentence examples for with downright from inspiring English sources

It has been proved that people easily confuse sexual arousal with downright terror.

Madigan as Halie deftly mixes self-delusion with downright flirtiness in the presence of the local pastor.

They stand at the head of a squalid, mutinous army, which itself is viewed with arrogance, if not with downright disgust, by most professionals.

Of greater concern was the country's continual mix of political posturing with downright bloody-mindedness that made them the continent's problem child for a quarter of a century.

And she turns on Gertrude with downright hostility and physical nausea in dwelling on "the rank sweat of an enseamed bed".

Instead, an eager throng dotted with bow ties and fezzes, in honor of Mr. Smith's geek-chic Doctor, congregated with downright civil enthusiasm and scoured a BBC America pop-up shop in the Ziegfeld lobby.

If O'Brien's intel is to be believed, then users will be stuck with a downright scant 8GB or 16GB of internal memory to work with, and with nary an expandable memory card slot in sight.

We received a flotilla of splendid seafood picks, all beautifully cooked, along with two downright disasters.

Let Father Tom have his Mass with "a downright Unitarian feel".

Mixing the serious with the downright pleasurable was always part of the point of the food festival, Orbach says.

With one exception, all were on our side, and perhaps more worryingly for ERA, many expressed their frustration with, or downright hatred of, RSD.