downright
adjective
thorough; absolute; out-and-out.
downrightness
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a word derived from
downright.
Example Sentences
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We have squires as many by thousands, as accomplished by tens of thousands; but the inimitable union of simplicity and refinement, downrightness and dignity, disappeared with the last faint reflection of Sir Roger de Coverley.
From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Sarah Tytler
Blunt, honest downrightness, that was the key of it, and it took away the breath of all those women used to the devious necessities of purdah politics.
From Caves of Terror by Talbot Mundy
The best of these came gladly to her, for she was an open and a disillusioned spirit, with something of a man's downrightness under her sensitive appreciation.
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
I like their downrightness, their pride in what they have achieved, their hatred of sham and affectation.
From Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains by Mary Roberts Rinehart
But there was more democratic outspokenness, more middle-class downrightness, and less of the Constitutional Club and drawing-room element in those ante-du Maurier days.
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
