Example sentences of "[subord] not downright [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , the idealist baggage — of entering a world of spirit , for example — seems at least obscure , if not downright obscurantist . |
| 2 | Being part of a disciplinary community is partly a matter of following a set of rules ; stepping outside the conventions of the discourse invites opprobrium , if not downright excommunication . |
| 3 | Spain 's financial and industrial bourgeoisie had decades before 1931 thrown in its lot with the monarchy and the landed class ; as an immediate and massive flight of capital indicated , business interests substantially shared the suspicion , if not downright hostility , with which large landowners from the outset regarded the new regime . |
| 4 | From 395 onwards the rivalry between the advisers of Honorius in the west and Arcadius in the east had ensured a lack of cooperation , if not downright hostility , between the two halves of the Roman Empire . |
| 5 | She weighed 71b 12oz and while her father expressed his delight at a ‘ perfect physical specimen ’ there was no hiding the sense of anticlimax , if not downright disappointment , in the family that the new arrival was not the longed-for male heir who would carry on the Spencer name . |