right-down
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Susan's simple right-down mind stopped for a moment with something very like a sob, baffled by the contradictions of the situation.
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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)
Passons niver can answer ye plain, right-down, nataral questions like this'n, and that's why I wunna ga ta tha church.
From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida
I call you right-down mean to go saying things like that!'
From A Terrible Tomboy by Brazil, Angela
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
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