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  • The mistake was that they did not abolutely, positively, downrightly copy everything from Twitter.

    German Twitter Clone Dukudu For Sale On eBay Duncan Riley 2005

  • "I express my sense of abhorrence at the cunning, irregular and downrightly corrupt practices adopted by some candidates whose numbers, although small, scatters itself across several provinces,"

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • This was no affectation; the woman was downrightly sorry, and it was not until we had patted her fondly and smiled our best thanks that she could be pacified at all and believe we were not offended.

    Through Finland in Carts

  • The reason for his resignation he had insisted on setting forth downrightly: he was able no longer to affirm absolute belief in some of the main tenets of his church.

    The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905

  • She recalled their talk of the sea-gulls, and of the men of the forests, and she remembered the almost brutal contempt for them he had so downrightly expressed.

    The Man in the Twilight Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • 'I don't see what you wanted to come at all for,' said Philip downrightly.

    The Magic City 1891

  • He had never been a favourite before, but it certainly was not pleasant to have to learn now by the most unmistakable signs that he was downrightly unpopular and disliked by those from whom he should have had his warmest backing up.

    The Willoughby Captains Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • Fed on pork, fluted deaf, bit with bugs, and robbed at cards -- fairly, downrightly robbed.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • Meseems, this mysterious, marvellous story with its fathomless, untold meanings does not downrightly condemn my views of human nature.

    The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813

  • There is something whimsical about beauty; one can never tell or describe downrightly in what it consists; it is always only the want of certain things which, when you have them at their full size, make up what folks call ugliness.

    The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813

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