thoroughgoing

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1. thoroughgoing - Adjective

2. thoroughgoing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.

Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.

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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. Aldous Huxley

Socialism as a thoroughgoing system had failed. But the central emotion behind it had not. And that emotion has only deepened... Jonah Goldberg

It would not be difficult to come to an agreement as to what we understand by science. Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thoroughgoing an association as possible. Albert Einstein

We can not tolerate anything approaching a monopoly, especially in the necessaries of life, except on terms of such thoroughgoing governmental control as will absolutely safe guard every right of the public. Theodore Roosevelt

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity. Albert Ellis

It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism; perhaps that is due to some weakness in our imaginations. Fredric Jameson

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