right-down
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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"A regular right-down bad'un, Work'us," replied Noah, coolly.
From Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Charles Dickens
He is a right-down good fellow, I am sure of that; and you are not such a bad little thing yourself, Mattie.
From Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey
We are going to have a right-down jolly time, for father is so tickled with the notion that he is coming, too; and he says he will give us a real good lark.
From Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade
Yes, I am right-down smitten with you, but I don’t think I like anything else.
From A Very Naughty Girl by L. T. Meade
Just let’s hear you do it, you unfit-for-repetition lubber, so as we may have a right-down blank laugh.’
From The Woodlands Orchids by Frederick Boyle
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