arrant

Example Sentences

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"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 • Jul. 7, 2022

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

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

Flawed but gifted authors high and low, from Laura Ingalls Wilder to John Muir to Mark Twain, have been lumped together with arrant racists and worse.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2018

"Invasion," screamed the headline of the Sydney Daily Telegraph in 2009 at the arrival of another shanty boat from Indonesia, which is arrant nonsense.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2011

Was it not a dangerous word, too closely connected to Hobbes and to dubious stories about sympathetic magic told by Digby—someone whom John Evelyn, another early member, could dismiss as an arrant mountebank?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton