right-down

British  

adverb

1. a variant of downright

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right-down

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

“This is what I call a right-down regular Harmattan,” said the master, who, like me, had been before in that delectable clime.

From Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars by Robertson, T.

The strength for a right-down hatred was not in her.

From A Woman's Burden by Hume, Fergus

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

"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)