Thesaurus / thoroughgoing

thoroughgoing

How to use thoroughgoing in a sentence

In any case, the failure to make thoroughgoing plans to accommodate other media outlets is a de facto act of exclusivity.

Hume and Holbach had much in common intellectually, although the latter was far more thoroughgoing in his repudiation of Theism.

BARON D'HOLBACHMAX PEARSON CUSHING

Malthus was not a thoroughgoing supporter of the 'do-nothing' doctrine.

We are not even sure that, in a thoroughgoing civic catastrophe, Dr. Straton would escape.

It was called then the Charles Street gang, and none but the thoroughgoing cared to belong to it.

ENDYMIONBENJAMIN DISRAELI

The men were a fine lot, and such thoroughgoing Americans, no matter from what country their parents had come.

Thus, for example, he is a thoroughgoing nominalist; and on this point he deserts the teaching of Reid.

The acceptance of 'intuitions,' that is, was the only alternative to thoroughgoing acceptance of 'experience.'

In brief, any plan for judicial control meant the exclusion of rate regulation in any thoroughgoing way.

The Scottish race, while possessing intense earnestness and energy, often gains its ends by the most thoroughgoing animosity.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985