right-down

British  

adverb

1. a variant of downright

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right-down

An out-and-out tempest, a thorough right-down drenching rain, would have been in agreeable contrast with the previous hot, dusty, sunny weather; but this—it seemed absolutely intolerable!

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various

You all gave your oaths to secrecy before I began, and now you are determined to betray me, I call it right-down shabby.

From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

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 George Horace Lorimer

"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 J. A. (John Alexander) Hammerton

"Amachoor detective or not," he apostrophized the absent gentleman, "an' queer in the top story though 'e may be, that's what I calls a right-down Lunnon gentleman!"

From The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel by Mary E. Hanshew