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.