arrant

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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

Or put less politely, as Mr. Rudd writes in the first sentence of his paper, “Mainstream economics is replete with ideas that ‘everyone knows’ to be true, but that are actually arrant nonsense.”

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2021

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

“The whole thing is arrant nonsense, of course,” he said.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling