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downrightness
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Downrightness
(gcide) | Downright \Down"right`\, a.
1. Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive;
as, he spoke in his downright way.
[1913 Webster]
A man of plain, downright character. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as,
downright atheism.
Syn: honest-to-goodness. [1913 Webster]
The downright impossibilities charged upon it.
--South.
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Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright
insanity. --Prescott.
-- Down"right`ly, adv. -- Down"right`ness, n.
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downrightness
(wn) | downrightness
n 1: the quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some
people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness"
[syn: downrightness, straightforwardness] |
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Downrightness
(gcide) | Downright \Down"right`\, a.
1. Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive;
as, he spoke in his downright way.
[1913 Webster]
A man of plain, downright character. --Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]
2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as,
downright atheism.
Syn: honest-to-goodness. [1913 Webster]
The downright impossibilities charged upon it.
--South.
[1913 Webster]
Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright
insanity. --Prescott.
-- Down"right`ly, adv. -- Down"right`ness, n.
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