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arrant

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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. Oliver Goldsmith

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action. Bertrand Russell

The moon's an arrant thief,And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. William Shakespeare

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? Louis Sullivan

Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made. George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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. Albert Caraco

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