downright

suomi-englanti sanakirja

downright englannista suomeksi

  1. selvä, suoranainen

  2. suora

  3. läpeensä

  1. suorastaan

downright englanniksi

  1. Directed vertically; coming straight down.

  2. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3)

  3. {{quote-book|en|year=1611|author=John Donne|title=An Anatomy of the World|location=London|publisher=Samuel Macham|url=https://archive.org/details/ananatomyworldw00donngoog

  4. Directly to the point; plain

  5. (syn)

  6. (RQ:Defoe System of Magick) three Nights together he dreamt that he saw a Neighbouring Gentleman kissing his Mistress, and in downright ''English'', lying with her.

  7. (RQ:Landon Lady Anne Granard)

  8. {{quote-text|en|year=1907|author=George Witton|title=Scapegoats of the Empire: The True Story of Breaker Morant’s Bushveldt Carbineers|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400611.txt|chapter=5

  9. 1920, (w) and Kochi Doi, ''Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan'', Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Translator’s Note,https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47151/47151-h/47151-h.htm

  10. English words and thought seem too downright a medium into which to render these evanescent, half-expressed sentences and poems—vague as the misty mountain scenery of her country, with no pronouns at all, and without verb inflections.
  11. Using plain direct language; accustomed to express opinions directly and bluntly; blunt.

  12. 1776, (w), ''(w)'', London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 396,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004861571.0001.001

  13. It bears the evident marks of having originally been, what the honest and downright Doctor Douglass assures us it was, a scheme of fraudulent debtors to cheat their creditors.
  14. (RQ:Austen Emma)

  15. {{quote-text|en|year=1941|author=Emily Carr|title=Klee Wyck|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100131.txt|chapter=3

  16. Complete; absolute

  17. (RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica) who may be made beleeve that any thing is God (..).

  18. (RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)

  19. {{quote-book|en|year=1879|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|title=Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes|location=London|publisher=Seeley|year_published=1903|chapter=1|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/382/382-h/382-h.htm

  20. Really; actually; quite; wholly.

  21. ''He wasn’t just cool to me, he was downright rude.''

  22. {{quote-text|en|year=1716|author=Joseph Addison|title=The Drummer; or, The Haunted House|location=London|publisher=Jacob Tonson|section=act I, scene 1|page=8|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004780920.0001.000

  23. {{quote-text|en|year=1753|author=Samuel Richardson|title=The History of Sir Charles Grandison|section=Volume 6, Letter 31, p. 208|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004782202.0001.006

  24. Straight down; perpendicularly.

  25. (RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)

  26. Plainly, unambiguously; directly.

  27. (RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It)

  28. (RQ:Richardson Pamela)

  29. Without delay; at once.

  30. (RQ:Arbuthnot Law)