downright wrong
Frequency: 7.18.5 per million words
Used with adjectives to emphasize a completely negative quality.
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Examples (10)
- What he did was downright wrong.
- I believe it's downright wrong to deceive customers.
- The information in that article isn't just misleading; it's downright wrong.
- Punishing everyone for one person's mistake is downright wrong.
- It feels downright wrong to take credit for someone else's work.
- From an ethical standpoint, their business practices are downright wrong.
- No matter how you look at it, their decision was downright wrong.
- She told him that his assumption about her was downright wrong.
- Looking back, many of the old laws were downright wrong.
- It would be downright wrong to ignore their cries for help.