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  • adverb positively
  • adjective complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers

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Examples

  • But it's a wonderful pome and I'm right-down proud of it.

    Separate Douglas Light 2010

  • It's a right-down racial war that has been all too familiar in america and it's sickening.

    Sources: Most uncommitted senators to endorse Obama 2008

  • Do you imagine there is a great deal of genuine right-down remorse in the world?

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • A regular right-down bad 'un, he roams the countryside, raping, killing, devouring, until he comes to Birmingham.

    Archive 2005-09-04 2005

  • A regular right-down bad 'un, he roams the countryside, raping, killing, devouring, until he comes to Birmingham.

    WEREWOLF BY MOONLIGHT by Guy N. Smith (New English Library 1974) 2005

  • A regular right-down bad 'un, he roams the countryside, raping, killing, devouring, until he comes to Birmingham.

    SON OF THE WEREWOLF by Guy N. Smith (New English Library 1978) 2005

  • But in all my life I have never seen no man, nor woman neither, show such regular right-down grief as Warrigal did for his master — the only human creature he loved in the wide world, and him lying stiff on the ground before him.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

  • When Nekhludoff came to know them better he became convinced that they were not the right-down villains that some imagined them to be, nor the complete heroes that others thought them, but ordinary people, just the same as others, among whom there were some good and some bad, and some mediocre, as there are everywhere.

    Resurrection 2003

  • As for Men-of-War, when they chance to meet at sea, they first go through such a string of silly bowings and scrapings, such a ducking of ensigns, that there does not seem to be much right-down hearty good-will and brotherly love about it at all.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • "Poor Gladys was right-down upset, " said Mrs. Moon.

    The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966

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