Paul Farmer

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

American Educator

Gretchen Whitmer

And for government and a bunch of men in government, frankly, to get between a woman and her provider is downright dangerous, especially when most of them can't even spell endometriosis, much less tell you what it means.

American Politician

Srikumar Rao

Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.

Indian Educator

H. L. Mencken

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

American Writer

Monty Don

When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.

English Celebrity

Dick Cavett

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

American Entertainer

Shamna Kasim

Asking Muslims to stay away from social media is downright absurd.

Indian Actress

Amy Schumer

Some men's magazines are just downright offensive.

American Comedian

Phoebe Robinson

Spending $40,000 on shoes is downright ignorant.

Michelle Obama

American First Lady

Use 'downright' to emphasize the extreme nature of an adjective.

Intensity Marker

'Downright' often precedes negative adjectives, adding a critical tone.

Negative Connotation

Commonly followed by extremes like 'impossible,' 'dangerous,' or 'ridiculous'.

Collocation Patterns

Stresses the unambiguous, frank nature of a response or statement.

Sincerity Emphasis

Indicates a no-frills approach, where things are said as they are, plainly.

No-Nonsense

Use 'downright' when showing confidence and certainty in expressing the truth.

Assertiveness

 and we use it to raise and trim the orbit and then deploy the spacecraft. And then because it's got its own engine, we put it into a retro orbit, put it back into a highly elliptical orbit, reenter it into the atmosphere and burn it back up, and leave absolutely nothing behind. Now everybody else in the industry is just downright filthy,

Small rockets are the...

 of the creative process. A process which, as anybody who has ever tried to make something -- which is to say basically everyone here --- knows does not always behave rationally. And, in fact, can sometimes feel downright paranormal. I had this encounter recently

Your elusive creative...

 I don't expect that this is going to get solved very quickly. The real difficulties, in fact, are us. As I have already mentioned, we behave badly. In fact, some of us are downright nasty. Now the robot, as I said, doesn't have to copy the behavior.

3 principles for...

 where wildlands philanthropy, which is what we called it, was completely unknown, we faced tremendous suspicion, and from many quarters, downright hostility. Over time, largely by doing what we said we were doing, we began to win people over.

Let's make the world...

 We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life, and sometimes memory is downright creative. But what if we could watch entire lives as they unfold through time? What if we could study people from the time that they were teenagers

Robert Waldinger: What...

 little since the sitar is downright contemporary sitars didn't even appear until after the moe period right at the end of the 18th century and early sitars looked very little like their modern-day counterparts and they've gone through

Can you play the sitar?...

 At first, this puzzle seems not just hard, but downright impossible. What good is asking a question if you can neither understand the answer nor know if it's true? But it can be done. The key is to carefully formulate our questions

Can you solve the three...

 is uncertain the struggle to find enough food avoid predation and despite the elements succeed is testing even for the most resilient of species from allusions to camouflage to being downright deceitful the animals in South Africa

Why Are Zebras Black and...

 to the downright bizarre some pointed out of control hormones or cataracts others blamed a world taken over by hungry caterpillars the answers eluded

Why the Dinosaurs’...

 Or a slight sense of unease or maybe downright panic. Or blissful peace and quiet. But visuals, they're of course more than just graphic icons.