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Downside   /dˈaʊnsˌaɪd/   Listen
Downside

noun
1.
A negative aspect of something that is generally positive.





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"Downside" Quotes from Famous Books



... at first so frightened, when he found himself swinging upside downside from Mart's trapeze, that he did not know what to do. He was too frightened even to call out, as he nearly always did when he found himself in trouble. Nearly always his first thought was of his father or mother. But this time he ...
— Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show • Laura Lee Hope
... it! What's the scheme?" Still Fitz did not speak, and Poole went on—"It ought to be something good to make you so cocksure. I have gone over it all again and again, turned it upside down and downside up, and I can't get at anything one-half so good as old Chips's cock-and-bull notions. I suppose you are cleverer than I am, and if you are, so much the better, for it's horrible to be shut up like this, and ...
— Fitz the Filibuster • George Manville Fenn


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