Word: downrightness
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...just downright evil, evil...
Faulted Hero. But Lawrence's troubled spirit has not been allowed to rest in peace. Six years ago, Novelist Richard Aldington performed a literary autopsy on Lawrence's remains, charged that Lawrence was a downright fraud, possibly a homosexual, certainly a poseur whose role in the Arab revolt had been negligible. Old friends from Winston Churchill down rallied to Lawrence's defense, but the damage had been done. Lawrence's own confessions in Pillars made it clear that he had known from the beginning that the Great Powers intended to carve up the Middle East, that...
...almost perfect ; he erred only in passing a bad check soon after his client's death.* By that slim margin, the Southwest nearly lost its finest college: rigorous, little-known Rice University (enrollment: 1,963), a 300-acre oasis of lush lawns and cool buildings that seem downright alien in raucous Houston...
...highly publicized and highly priced Harvard Playboy premier at Harkness Commons was rather dull indeed. For those who had come expecting a reasonable facsimile of the parties Playboy so temptingly describes from time to time, the Harvard version was downright miserable...
...Words." The reason for such limitations is the U.S. dogma of "vocabulary control"-holding down each reader to only a few new words. The rules are often "downright exquisite," says Trace. Widely used readers boast that "no new words" appear for 100 pages or more; the old words are endlessly repeated; the stories are inevitably dull. "Insipid, trivial, inane, pointless," Trace calls them...