Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word ARRANT
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Definitions of ARRANT
- (chiefly, with a negative connotation, dated) Complete; downright; utter.
- (by extension, dated) Very bad; despicable.
- Obsolete form of errant ("roving around; wandering").
- A surname.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using ARRANT in a Sentence
- Edward Rowe Mores described him as 'an arrant blunderer' and accused him, with justification, of tearing out the title-pages of rare books in his collection.
- In a contemporary review, Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times:
To call it a manifest triumph would be arrant stinginess with words.
- Jakob Andrea, in his Christliche Erinnerung (Tabingen, 1589), styled this publication an "arrant piece of knavery"; while Pareus, in Rettung der Neustadter Bibel (Neustadt, 1589), answered in a more moderate tone.
- They reported to Thomas Cromwell that although they had "travailed with her" for many hours she would "nothing utter," and they were forced to conclude that either her sons had not included her in their plans for "treason" or she was "the most arrant traitress that ever lived".
- Some reviews were slightly more positive - Patricia Wynn Davies of The Telegraph wrote that while lacking in subtlety, the episode had an "action-packed conclusion", and Lucy Mangan in the Guardian criticised the episode as "arrant nonsense" and "a clattering bag of madness" and found its characters too "shouty", but praised Paul Rhys and overall concluded that the episode was "utterly bonkers but curiously satisfying" and that, as for the series, "keeping the faith for a few more weeks might well pay off".
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