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There will be some qualifications and criticisms, and a few downright disagreements, but they are footnotes to the footnotes.
In this example punctuation suggests that there is no intonational boundary between downright and the following adjective.
To preach a keen interest in how architecture is actually made can be downright unpopular, especially within a school of architecture.
It is often the case that downright appears in contexts which themselves evoke a gradation.
However, bounded heads are not the only possible collocates of downright over time.
But none of them fails to be fascinating; and many are downright brilliant.
For someone outside the culture, the enactment might well have been less obvious or downright unreadable.
This is often uncomfortable, if not downright irritating.
The architect's task is now to integrate new functions and new spaces in the castle, yet the choices available are downright vast.
Given such misquotes and downright lies written about my own reports, no wonder that ufology has turned into such a discredited subject.
The foregoing discussion shows that, although downright is a low-frequency intensifier, its history is nevertheless worthy of close attention.
One may wonder why downright shows such a marked preference for negative collocates.
A right glove left right at my door today would have been downright handy.
Overall, although occasionally lacking focus, the collection is intellectually stimulating, absorbing, and often downright enjoyable.
She shows no fondness for her own youthful innocence and betrays downright hostility toward her own child.