arrant

Example Sentences

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Former Scottish Tory leader Baroness Ruth Davidson said the idea that the prime minister was going to stay on until the party conference was "arrant nonsense"

From BBC

"There's no way he can stay on until October. It's arrant nonsense to think he can. Someone needs to grip this."

From Reuters

One reason for this, he posits: “The economy is a complicated system that is inherently difficult to understand, so propositions like these” — the arrant nonsense in question — “are all that saves us from intellectual nihilism.”

From New York Times

The country that invented Donald Duck is the last to discover his cynicism—and what arrant cynicism it is.

From The New Yorker

Hands up: chances are you consider all of the above to be arrant poppycock.

From The Guardian