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downright

 adverb
     
down‧right [+ adjective/adverb]
used to emphasize that something is completely bad or untrue:
Jed's downright lazy.
It's downright disgusting!
—downright adjective [only before noun]
That's a downright lie!
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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