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Definition of "arrant" []

  • Completely such; thoroughgoing: an arrant fool; the arrant luxury of the ocean liner. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "arrant" in a sentence
  • "Event 2: We say homosexuality is a variant sexuality which does no intrinsic harm to the consenting adults that practice it or anyone else outwith their relationship, rejecting in no uncertain terms your arrant presumption that you have the privilege to impose your morés on us -- or anyone else, for that matter -- and criticising your judgementalism as ethically retarded."
  • "For that matter, there were unmistakable signs in Sandy himself of what would have been called arrant terror in any other man."
  • "But this latest attack is the kind of arrant nonsense up with which I will not put!"