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right-down

British  

adverb

  1. a variant of downright

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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