right-down English

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right-down

— adverb positively a regular right-down bad 'un — -Charles Dickens

— adjective (= absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, sheer) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers absolute freedom an absolute dimwit a downright lie out-and-out mayhem an out-and-out lie a rank outsider many right-down vices got the job through sheer persistence sheer stupidity

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downright

sheer

rank

out-and-out

absolute

thorough

positively

notorious

complete