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

However, Sinn Fein assembly member Pat Sheehan called Mr Allister's claims of supremacy "arrant nonsense".

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2022

The country that invented Donald Duck is the last to discover his cynicism—and what arrant cynicism it is.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

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

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

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