thoroughpaced
Example Sentences
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Despite the tight-lipped opposition of all the old-line insurance companies, the plan was a thoroughpaced success.
From Time Magazine Archive
And certainly, if the indictment contained a true statement of the facts, James M'Wilkin, or Wilkinson, or Wilson was about as thoroughpaced a marauder as ever perambulated a common.
From Project Gutenberg
Hendry made no answer to the second mate's remarks, which were accompanied by a considerable number of oaths and much vigorous blasphemy; for the honest-hearted Atkins detested both his captain and the supercargo most fervently, as a pair of thoroughpaced villains.
From Project Gutenberg
A more thoroughpaced small coquette than La Femme Incomprise never breathed, yet she must needs be a holy angel for the time being to Paul Armstrong, because she had fine eyes and teeth, and could talk with some eloquence about heart-sorrows she had never known.
From Project Gutenberg
There is no tyrant like a thoroughpaced reformer.
From Project Gutenberg
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