downright
suomi-englanti sanakirjadownright englannista suomeksi
selvä, suoranainen
suora
läpeensä
downright englanniksi
Directed vertically; coming straight down.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3)
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Directly to the point; plain
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(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.
(RQ:Landon Lady Anne Granard)
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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
- 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.
Using plain direct language; accustomed to express opinions directly and bluntly; blunt.
1776, (w), ''(w)'', London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 396,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004861571.0001.001
- 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.
(RQ:Austen Emma)
{{quote-text|en|year=1941|author=Emily Carr|title=Klee Wyck|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100131.txt|chapter=3
(RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica) who may be made beleeve that any thing is God (..).
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)’
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''He wasn’t just cool to me, he was downright rude.''
{{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
{{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
Straight down; perpendicularly.
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
(RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It)
(RQ:Richardson Pamela)
Without delay; at once.
(RQ:Arbuthnot Law)