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

After this, his wife becomes a Roman Catholic for six months, and then developes into a thoroughpaced infidel of generally loose character.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890 by Various

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 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

Look at it how I might, this business wore a most curst aspect, to be sure; nor could I regard myself as anything but a thoroughpaced rogue.

From A Set of Rogues by Barrett, Frank

He did not stand shivering upon the brink, but was a hearty thoroughpaced liar, and plunged at once into the depths of your credulity.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles