right-down

British  

adverb

1. a variant of downright

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Example Sentences

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right-down

I call you right-down mean to go saying things like that!'

From A Terrible Tomboy by Brazil, Angela

"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)

"Yes, sir, I tried it, and so long as it were be-ans and o-ats, I could manage pooty well, sir; but when you come to that there chopped hay, that right-down choked me, sir!"

From Mr. Punch's Country Life by Hammerton, J. A. (John Alexander)

The last time I was in Strasbourg I was right-down ashamed of myself the way they treated me,--wanting to know whether we wouldn't soon have some more counterfeit money that didn't belong anywhere.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

But if thou puttest thy terms right-down, and also sayest thou must have thy cash right-down too—don't start so at that cash—then not so many sitters to be sure, but more returns.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman