arrant

Example Sentences

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"There's no way he can stay on until October. It's arrant nonsense to think he can. Someone needs to grip this."

From Reuters • Jul. 7, 2022

Or put less politely, as Mr. Rudd writes in the first sentence of his paper, “Mainstream economics is replete with ideas that ‘everyone knows’ to be true, but that are actually arrant nonsense.”

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2021

Flawed but gifted authors high and low, from Laura Ingalls Wilder to John Muir to Mark Twain, have been lumped together with arrant racists and worse.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2018

On balance, this arrant unhipness is a good thing.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 9, 2015

“The whole thing is arrant nonsense, of course,” he said.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling