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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
downright/ˈdaʊnrʌɪt/

▶adjective

1 utter; complete: it's a downright disgrace.

2 forthright; blunt.

▶adverb to an extreme degree; thoroughly: he was downright rude.

– derivatives
downrightness noun.

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Downright decadent
Downright or utterly
Downright Wrong
It is raining downright
the banal, the bizarre and the downright barking

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