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

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

"Invasion," screamed the headline of the Sydney Daily Telegraph in 2009 at the arrival of another shanty boat from Indonesia, which is arrant nonsense.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2011

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

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