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downhill

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The world is all downhill from here exactly because people don't have the integrity and courage to resist.

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Quick take

To take part in downhill skiing.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of downhill gathered in one view.

verb

To take part in downhill skiing.

noun

A coastal village and beach (Downhill Strand) in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

noun

A hamlet in St Eval parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8669).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for downhill.

Example sentences

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The world is all downhill from here exactly because people don't have the integrity and courage to resist.

2

Until you fix the mentality of the people at the top, shit will continue to roll downhill.

3

Quite a bit of energy is wasted in water free-flowing downhill (in the sense that it can not be recovered).

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No brakes, high rocks on one side, 100 meters cliff on other side, 20km of downhill in front off me.

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They started deleting comments in that thread and it all went downhill from there once people realized posts were being removed.

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We've been a nexmo customer for a few years and support has definitely gone downhill.

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If you don't just bend over at that point and the officer is a jerk then theres a chance of things going downhill like we've seen here.

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However, it did feel like it went downhill when you explained how the updating happens.

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Those drivers do well as early adopters, but I suspect its downhill (for them) in the long term.

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What we now have is mostly people blindly following potential gradients set by markets, like water flowing downhill.

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Whenever I'm hauling >10K lbs with my pickup truck, I get most nervous going downhill through mountains.

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Since join.me went downhill, this will be a welcome addition to Slack.

Quote examples

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Sometime between 1960 and "now" suburb designs went badly downhill.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use downhill in a sentence?

The world is all downhill from here exactly because people don't have the integrity and courage to resist.

What does downhill mean?

To take part in downhill skiing.

What part of speech is downhill?

downhill is commonly used as verb, noun.