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Definition of arrant in English: arrantadjective ˈar(ə)ntˈɛrənt dated attributive Complete, utter. Example sentencesExamples - ‘The notion that the women's movement denigrates women who choose the traditional roles of wife and mother is arrant nonsense,’ columnist Molly Ivins writes emphatically.
- I was a Minister for 9 years, and what the Hon Trevor Mallard has said is absolute arrant nonsense.
- In public, the managers might pretend that their players don't drink, that only the highest standards of professionalism are tolerated, that football has moved into the modern world, but that's arrant nonsense.
- I have just listened to Mr Clayton Cosgrove, who I believe is a former trade union official, and who understands all about producer boards, talking arrant nonsense.
- According to him, the idea of ‘Hindustan for Hindus is not merely arrogant but is arrant nonsense‘.
- Did you ever, in all your life, hear such arrant nonsense?
- One must question the credibility of a journal that publishes such arrant nonsense.
- These people crumble when their arrant nonsense is confronted with simple common sense.
- Leiter makes sweeping and imprecise generalizations that turn out to be arrant nonsense, however you interpret them.
- The western world is fed so much arrant nonsense about people who follow differing forms of religious observance and, sadly, it is usually of a highly derogatory nature.
- Sometime last week this arrant nonsense appeared in one of the local newspapers.
- We heard arrant nonsense from this hopeless Minister of Police, who wanders around the country in a daze, blinded by his own incompetence.
- Either Connor hasn't read Mabo (or hasn't read it very carefully), or he's relying on the fact that most of the readers of his Bulletin article won't have done so, and therefore won't realise that his claim is arrant nonsense.
- To pretend or believe that any or all of this could be done without explicit state and military sanction is the most arrant nonsense.
- However Ken conspicuously failed to mention that the other teams researching in the area have dismissed the Vinnikov and Grody paper as arrant nonsense.
- From the point of view of historical fact, this is all - to put it mildly - arrant nonsense.
- Day after day, our leaders feed us arrant nonsense.
- There is a good catalogue here of the arrant nonsense that has been used by European intellectuals to justify their jealous hatred of the USA.
- ‘This is arrant nonsense,’ Sivan replies, when asked this question.
- This is arrant nonsense, and further proof that the history of pop music is not taught properly in schools these days.
Synonyms utter, downright, thoroughgoing, absolute, complete, thorough, through and through, total, unmitigated, outright, out-and-out, real, perfect, consummate, surpassing, sheer, rank, pure, unqualified, inveterate, positive, undiluted, unalloyed, unadulterated, in every respect, unconditional blatant, flagrant, overt, naked, barefaced, brazen North American full-bore informal deep-dyed British informal right Australian/New Zealand informal fair rare right-down
Derivatives adverb dated Supermarket food is also packed with sugar, which is not only fattening, it is also arrantly destructive to the body. Example sentencesExamples - America is being denounced as arrantly hypocritical for first pretending to promote democracy, then trying to crush its results.
- Before reading the column, I held onto the slight chance that my view of this university was arrantly skewed.
- The presumption of innocence - widely overused as a rhetorical lifeline for the arrantly guilty - is indeed deeply rooted in Anglo-American common law.
- For instance, some frustrated teachers will give an arrantly negligent student a B, instead of a grade more indicative of poor work.
Origin Middle English: variant of errant, originally in phrases such as arrant thief ( 'outlawed, roving thief'). err from Middle English: Like error (Middle English) and erratic (Late Middle English), err comes to us from Latin errare, which meant ‘to stray, wander’ but could also mean ‘to make a mistake’. The idea of straying or going off the correct course is still found in erratic, and also in the old term knight errant (Middle English), so called because they wandered far and wide in search of adventure. Arrant is a Middle English variant of errant, and aberrant (mid 16th century) is literally a ‘wandering away’ from the right path. The proverb to err is human, to forgive, divine is so old that it is found in Latin (humanum est errare, ‘it is human to err’), and also in the 14th-century work of Geoffrey Chaucer: ‘The proverb says that to sin is human, but to carry on sinning is the devil's work.’ The precise wording that we are familiar with comes from An Essay on Criticism (1711) by the poet Alexander Pope.
Definition of arrant in US English: arrantadjectiveˈɛrəntˈerənt dated attributive Complete, utter. Example sentencesExamples - According to him, the idea of ‘Hindustan for Hindus is not merely arrogant but is arrant nonsense‘.
- To pretend or believe that any or all of this could be done without explicit state and military sanction is the most arrant nonsense.
- From the point of view of historical fact, this is all - to put it mildly - arrant nonsense.
- ‘This is arrant nonsense,’ Sivan replies, when asked this question.
- Day after day, our leaders feed us arrant nonsense.
- Leiter makes sweeping and imprecise generalizations that turn out to be arrant nonsense, however you interpret them.
- ‘The notion that the women's movement denigrates women who choose the traditional roles of wife and mother is arrant nonsense,’ columnist Molly Ivins writes emphatically.
- The western world is fed so much arrant nonsense about people who follow differing forms of religious observance and, sadly, it is usually of a highly derogatory nature.
- This is arrant nonsense, and further proof that the history of pop music is not taught properly in schools these days.
- I was a Minister for 9 years, and what the Hon Trevor Mallard has said is absolute arrant nonsense.
- Sometime last week this arrant nonsense appeared in one of the local newspapers.
- We heard arrant nonsense from this hopeless Minister of Police, who wanders around the country in a daze, blinded by his own incompetence.
- These people crumble when their arrant nonsense is confronted with simple common sense.
- In public, the managers might pretend that their players don't drink, that only the highest standards of professionalism are tolerated, that football has moved into the modern world, but that's arrant nonsense.
- Either Connor hasn't read Mabo (or hasn't read it very carefully), or he's relying on the fact that most of the readers of his Bulletin article won't have done so, and therefore won't realise that his claim is arrant nonsense.
- There is a good catalogue here of the arrant nonsense that has been used by European intellectuals to justify their jealous hatred of the USA.
- One must question the credibility of a journal that publishes such arrant nonsense.
- Did you ever, in all your life, hear such arrant nonsense?
- I have just listened to Mr Clayton Cosgrove, who I believe is a former trade union official, and who understands all about producer boards, talking arrant nonsense.
- However Ken conspicuously failed to mention that the other teams researching in the area have dismissed the Vinnikov and Grody paper as arrant nonsense.
Synonyms utter, downright, thoroughgoing, absolute, complete, thorough, through and through, total, unmitigated, outright, out-and-out, real, perfect, consummate, surpassing, sheer, rank, pure, unqualified, inveterate, positive, undiluted, unalloyed, unadulterated, in every respect, unconditional
Origin Middle English: variant of errant, originally in phrases such as arrant thief (‘outlawed, roving thief’). |