My teenage years were also shot through with arrant stupidity. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
An arrant fool. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an arrant fool. From Dictionary.com.
Give another word in place of "arrant" that will mean the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
Pooh, what nonsense it was, what arrant nonsense in. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Once in the city, he went directly about his "arrant.". From Wordnik.com. [Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea] Reference
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head. From Wordnik.com. [Graded Memory Selections] Reference
The blustering old man at bottom was an arrant coward. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
What an arrant old fool I was to propose coming up here!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"I've got a arrant daown ter the mill," remarked the offended. From Wordnik.com. [Randy and Her Friends] Reference
"Got ter go back a minute," said the boy, "just for a arrant.". From Wordnik.com. [Princess Polly's Playmates] Reference
Have I shown wisdom or made an arrant, egregious fool of myself?. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
"What arrant nonsense!" exclaimed Nelson, with some exasperation. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
Basha was an arrant rebel, and hated the very sight of a red coat. From Wordnik.com. [Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors] Reference
For myself, I judge that it was nothing less than an arrant humbug. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
What arrant nonsense the Stakes in the hedge used to talk with their. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
But, after all, it was arrant nonsense for Hamilton to act like this. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
"Why not risk it?" she challenged lightly, arrant mischief in her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
For in this matter of smittal plagues we Highlanders are the most arrant cowards. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Yet he cries out against Ophelia, 'We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us!'. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
"If the old woman has got any arrant at all, it's likely it's to your mother and me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
This act would either be regarded as arrant madness or attempted international bossism. From Wordnik.com. [The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox] Reference
He is thus enabled to steer a middle course between arrant conceit and childish fright. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference
Douglas campaign, was "the most arrant Quixotism that was ever enacted before a community.". From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
Certainly as far as we could see, the man's feverish persistence was arrant insubordination. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
"Go to bed, you arrant little humbug," replied Jim, with a perceptible quiver of his right eye. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
Now be it known that this Mr. Grump was one of the most arrant scoundrels that ever went unhung. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Jocelyn Wray was no better than an arrant coquette, but the next moment questioned this conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
Compared with us, it has always seemed to me that you are arrant cowards, -- that we alone are brave. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Come to think on't, I've got an arrant there myself this arternoon -- come nigh to disremembering it. From Wordnik.com. [Sara, a Princess] Reference
It's of no use denying it, but I am an arrant gambler at heart; I must and will have a gamble on this. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
I treated their fears as arrant nonsense, but told them to come and argue it out with me in my own room. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
Hastings, five years old, who might have divided honors with the favorites but for being an arrant rogue. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
She was talking arrant nonsense in self-defence, for every fibre of her being was quivering at his presence. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
It was often good for a great many more, for the foreign skipper was at the best an arrant man-stealing rogue. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
For example, an arrant simpleton is his opponent, and, holding up his closed hand asks, 'Are they even or odd?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
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