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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Twice dyed.
  2. Hence Deeply imbued, as with guilt; thorough; complete: as, a double-dyed villain.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely coloured.
  2. adj. figuratively Firmly fixed in opinions or habits.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

Examples

  • “About a month ago, around my birthday, I used my "birthday discount" join the "Insider's Club" and you, too, will save like me! at Loehmanns and one of my purchases was a Romeo & Juliet Couture double-dyed or tie-died "wifebeater".”

    Fashion

  • “In what part of Hellas, tell me, sir, do Hellenes keep a truce with traitors, double-dyed deserters, and tyrants?”

    Hellenica

  • “George King was a double-dyed traitor, and a most infernal villain.”

    The Perils of Certain English Prisoners

  • “But my fingers itched to get at the Portugoose — that double-dyed traitor to his race.”

    Prester John

  • “The dead may not be able to harass you with writs, but are you entitled to portray them as double-dyed villains, despite the fact that they can't hire a lawyer?”

    Recycling characters from the past

  • ““Then, sir,” said the baronet, giving me back my letter, “you must be a double-dyed villain.””

    Tales of all countries

  • “She had a great idea that people who had extensive grounds themselves cared very little for the extensive grounds of any body else; but it was not worth while to attack an error so double-dyed, and therefore only said in reply,”

    Emma

  • “I can see me convincing Sir Henry Hardinge of that!" says I. "Of all the double-dyed Yankee fakers -”

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light

  • “But like the double-dyed mutt I must be, I couldn't find anything.”

    Hercule Poirot's Casebook

  • “Have to leave it to the last minute - double-dyed criminals they may be but we can't have a couple of men go down in a sinking ship. ”

    San Andreas

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