right-down

British  

adverb

1. a variant of downright

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Example Sentences

We weren't used to be confined in a place, and it made us right-down wolfish.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various

It's right-down mean to back out at the last minute when the party's all made up and the couples all arranged and you've given your word.

From The Governess by Chickering, Charles R.

"But you are right-down ill," interrupted the elder woman, who evidently considered herself more as one of the family than as a domestic.

From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

And her own house is just right-down slatternly, and her children are coming up any how.

From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

An out-and-out tempest, a thorough right-down drenching rain, would have been in agreeable contrast with the previous hot, dusty, sunny weather; but this—it seemed absolutely intolerable!

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various