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arrant Adjective utter or downright: that's the most arrant nonsense I've ever heard [Middle English variant of errant (wandering, vagabond)]
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The general tuckermanities are arrant Bubbles - ephemeral and so transparent - But this is, now, - you may depend upon it - Stable, opaque, immortal - all by dint Of the dear names that lie concealed within 't. Then tell me; art thou not an arrant, all-grasping, inter-meddling, monopolizing, heathenish old scamp, to be one day making legs, and the next day coffins to clap them in, and yet again life-buoys out of those same coffins? Your geniuses are all arrant asses -- the greater the genius the greater the ass -- and to this rule there is no exception whatever. |
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