thoroughgoing

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[ UK /θˈʌɹəɡˌə‍ʊɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial
    thoroughgoing research
    an exhaustive study
    made a thorough search
  2. 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
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How To Use thoroughgoing In A Sentence

  • This was a thoroughgoing hatred of mankind, with a bonus for any woman who looked, spoke and treated people as Constance Kimble did. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
  • A thoroughgoing rogue named Duke Feribor, who has some distant claim to the crown of Cathra. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • Researchers tend to be concerned with substantive issues and are less than enthusiastic about engaging in the kind of development work that would be required for a thoroughgoing determination of measurement quality.
  • The options for dealing with so thoroughgoing a tyranny were pathetically limited.
  • His thoroughgoing Puritanism meant that he constantly subjected himself to self-examination.
  • Aristotle was a thoroughgoing ‘empiricist’ in two senses of that slippery term.
  • He will simply not countenance further funding increases without thoroughgoing changes in the balance between state and private school educated undergraduates.
  • Then, if ever, was a signal opportunity to lay the groundwork for a genuinely thoroughgoing reform in keeping with the complementary ideas of free enterprise and equal access to natural opportunity.
  • thoroughgoing research
  • While worthwhile, commendable, and necessary, these local prosecutions are not enough to prompt the thoroughgoing national, institutional reforms needed.
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