arrant
Speech parts
1. arrant - Adjective
2. arrant - Adjective Satellite
3. Arrant - Proper noun
Meaning
Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward.
Thorough or downright, in a good sense.
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This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
The moon's an arrant thief,And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?
Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made.
In every saint there lurks an arrant knave, the marrow of all holyness being absolute hellishness. That is why our Saviours are of no awail, their remedies being too strong for common man, who is the puppet of his fleshly appetite and not a sinner.