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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Down·right, a.
 1. Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.
    A man of plain, downright character.   --Sir W. Scott.
 2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.
 Syn: -- honest-to-goodness.
    The downright impossibilities charged upon it.   --South.
    Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity.   --Prescott.
 -- Down*right*ly, adv. -- Down*right*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 downrightness
      n : the quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some
          people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness"
          [syn: straightforwardness]