But fiddling with your GPS, especially when driving a new route, can be downright dangerous.
Glickman says customers can be downright rude, because they are expecting the hard sell.
Losing your job is a blow to your ego and can be downright scary.
It can be downright mulish about burying its rare moments of violence or sex.
In other words, a bad boss can make your life unpleasant, but a bully can be downright dangerous.
But for those who understand the way college aid eligibility is calculated, they can also be downright beneficial.
Hearing what coach Rick Pitino said afterward is going to be downright terrifying.
In fact, a trip to the giant electronics retailer can be downright frustrating.
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Better graphics matter to gamers, but it better be downright holographic for the unit to creep into the high hundreds.
Driverless cars can be downright scary to some people, who see them as intruders from the world of science fiction.
Some events will be stylish and uber-creative ( World of WearableArt), while others will be downright cool ( Maniatoto Curling Festival).
It can be downright infuriating to have mana run out mid-battle and realize your efforts to this point have been useless.
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If you are not at least 200% sold on the concept of your book, writing the thing will be downright brutal.
But almost no-one completely agrees with their own manifesto - it would be downright spooky, and perhaps unhealthy, if they did.
In fact, some micro-apartments can be downright cool while being cost effective.
But they are a part of audits and can be downright Draconian.
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But in the past 12 months, Americans have gotten a grim lesson that the side effects of popular medicines can be downright frightening.
If it actually played as the creepy psychological thriller it would like to think it is, the mind-numbing contortions of Fernley Phillips' crude screenplay would be downright offensive.
It is that cancer often deviates wildly from the averages, so much so that merely applying the general statistics to an individual patient can often turn out to be downright misleading.
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So, with that said, we suggest you wait at least a day or two before using your smartphone to go on a shopping spree, because those online checkout forms can be downright tortuous.
I've talked before in this column about the capability of Facebook and other social media to threaten relationships: They provide a sense of instant gratification that stimulates our brain's reward centers, offering quick hits of novelty that can be downright addictive.
Nor does it help that Jamie is so withdrawn as to be downright dull. (Nothing is harder to write than an interesting play about a dull person.) The biggest problem of all is the ending, which feels contrived rather than earned, just as Mark Wendland's picture-puzzle set is too explicitly symbolic of the play's theme.
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Narcissists might be annoying and even downright selfish, but they may be the best bet when bold and unconventional actions are needed to save an organization.
But defending yourself in one of these messes will be unpleasant if not downright frightening.
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For fans of the old game this may be a mixed bag or downright disappointing.
Depending on the size of your organization, the amount of email you receive can be daunting, demoralizing, downright depressing.
Smoothing over ruffled feathers and easing concerns and making things right with downright irate shoppers should be matter of course for retailers today.
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