A downright fact may be briefly told. [ John Ruskin ]

Too much care may be as bad as downright negligence. [ Proverb ]

Of all crafts to an honest man downright is the only craft. [ Proverb ]

Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies. [ Lava ter ]

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient. [ Beecher ]

A downright contradiction is equally mysterious to wise men as to fools. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

My own style is the result of downright hard work. This, and the experience of life, have been my chief teachers. [ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. [ Shenstone ]

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them. [ De Quincey ]

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. [ Ruskin ]