Lexicographical Neighbors of Downrightly
Literary usage of Downrightly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons by Jean-Baptiste Massillon, William Dickson (1803)
"... them at the expence pt truth, we at laft openly abandon it; we cowardly and
downrightly Sacrifice it to our ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1859)
"... higher Whig school, has been always remarkable for its political moderation ;
but to the Ulster himself, politics are downrightly distasteful, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"Charming and eccentric our countrywomen generally are, but very seldom downrightly
objectionable or vicious. One specimen, however, of this sort may be ..."
4. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"Another kind of calumny is, by instilling sly suggestions, which although they
do not downrightly ..."
5. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt by Leigh Hunt (1850)
"... very downrightly, says I am the devil (boiteux they might have added), and a
rebel and what not:—possibly my accuser of diabolism may be Rosa Matilda; ..."
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