right-down
Britishadverb
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"A right-down slick and shrewd 'un, darn me if he ain't!"
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
He was a right-down high-minded gentleman, though not so clever as my lady, perhaps.
From Nurse Heatherdale's Story by Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth
It was a right-down pleasing and sturdy implement, recalling in good steel the vernacular quarter-staff of old.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
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
"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 E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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