Downrightly

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Downright \Down"right`\, a.
     1. Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive;
        as, he spoke in his downright way.
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              A man of plain, downright character.  --Sir W.


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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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