Flying a helicopter over water is more dangerous than it looks; rough weather could make a shoot downright deadly.

They can be downright deadly.

Each of the names looked menacing, and when viewed as a group they looked downright deadly.

With a single decree, the government of Tanzania recently closed - some permanently - all these Swahili-language publications and others after deciding that they were downright deadly periodicals, not just frivolous ones.

They mean downright deadly.

Dissecting humor, particularly in the company of film scholars, can be downright deadly.