Bad and Downright

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Bad adjective - Falling short of a standard.

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Downright and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Downright" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Downright adjective - Being or characterized by direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or manner.

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Bad and downright are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Downright".

Anyone with money is bad or downright evil (Harriet Olesen, Ebeneezer Sprague) and doing things that will make a character successful will only backfire and provide an Aesop for the protagonists.

Source: Ambition Is Evil
McKiernan's Mithgar series has two types of dragons: the bad kind that breathe gas and burn up in sunlight, and the not-so-bad kind that's still unpleasant but not downright evil.

Source: Our Dragons Are Different / Literature
The videos are known for their terrible artwork that looks like it was done in Paint, text-to-speech voice acting, hilariously bad dialogue, and sometimes downright surreal plots.

Source: So Bad Its Good / New Media

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