arrant

• Lew had said that he, Leithen, would be able to hunt--arrant folly, for a few days of it in his present state would kill him. —  SICK HEART RIVER
• Of all the arrant, preposterous, and ludicrous attacks yet launched on Sarah Palin, there is none more absurd than the notion that she should have stood up in a huff and stormed out of church in her hometown of Wasilla because her pastor had invited a Jews for Jesus nutcase to speak there. —  English-writing Israeli-bloggers
• Well, more simpletons and arrant wasters, they! —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
• Your majesty hear now (saving your majesty’s manhood) what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lowsy knave it is: I hope, your majesty is pear me testimony, and witness, and avouchments, that this is the glove of Alençon, that your majesty is give me, in your conscience, now K. Hen. Give me thy glove, soldier: Look, here is the fellow of it. —  King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
• "But Miss Bly the's come here this mornin' of a funny sort of a arrant, to my thinking, though her seems to fancy it's as solemn a business as a burying What is the matter?" —  Aunt Rachel

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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