right-down

British  

adverb

1. a variant of downright

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right-down

I’ve heard a good deal in my time about the foolishness of hens, but when it comes to right-down, plum foolishness, give me a rooster, every time.

From Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by Lorimer, George Horace

Yes, I am right-down smitten with you, but I don’t think I like anything else.

From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.

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)

"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)

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