right-down
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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He was a right-down high-minded gentleman, though not so clever as my lady, perhaps.
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I call you right-down mean to go saying things like that!'
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If there's one thing I cannot stand it is to hear people talk right-down silly; I never could stand it, and I never shall.
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Yes, I am right-down smitten with you, but I don’t think I like anything else.
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It was a right-down pleasing and sturdy implement, recalling in good steel the vernacular quarter-staff of old.
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