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US
/ˈæɹənt/
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[ UK /ˈæɹənt/ ]
[ UK /ˈæɹənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
a thoroughgoing villain
utter nonsense
a perfect idiot
what a sodding mess
pure folly
the unadulterated truth
stark staring mad
a consummate fool
gross negligence
an arrant fool
a complete coward
a double-dyed villain
a thorough nuisance
How To Use arrant In A Sentence
- Some lucky local with an open fire had determined the evening warranted a little extra cheer, more than the central heating could provide, and had lit a small blaze on his hearth.
- Let’s move to a more recent example of what I can only call institutionalised racism in American reporting of Iraq I have to thank reader Andrew Gorman for this gem, a January Associated Press report about the killing of an Iraqi prisoner under interrogation by US Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jnr. Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Incomprehensible Demoralization
- Minister for Defence Robert Hill talks with an Australian Army captain and warrant officer at a Middle East base.
- I boxed, swam, sailed, rode horses, lived in the open an arrantly healthful life, and passed life insurance examinations with flying colours. Chapter 29
- With this evidence at hand, one might question whether the three disjunct populations warrant classification as species rather than subspecies.
- But the rating agencies do change their minds when conditions warrant it. Principles of Corporate Finance
- CHAPTER Seventeen EMERSON was unreasonably annoyed with me for what he called my unwarranted interference. The Curse of the Pharaohs
- Besides a warrant f'r a moke was the same as a letther iv inthroduction to th 'warden iv th' pinitinchry. Mr. Dooley's Philosophy
- Most appliances come with a free oneyear warranty. The Sun
- `Just don't sell my warrant card on the black market, Larry. THE LAST TEMPTATION