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Double-dyed

adjective

Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers. Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter. "A complete coward" , "A consummate fool" , "A double-dyed villain" , "Gross negligence" , "A perfect idiot" , "Pure folly" , "What a sodding mess" , "Stark staring mad" , "A thoroughgoing villain" , "Utter nonsense" , "The unadulterated truth"

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"Double-dyed" Quotes from Famous Books

... gallops up behind you in this state, unless something hits you in the back; and even then it's liable to be only a bunch of tracts or a petition to sign against the trusts. I never looked at that hombre that rode by; but I'll bet a quart of sheep dip that he's some double-dyed son of a popgun out rounding ...

— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine

... in a corner hiding behind some ancient cabinet, and she wrinkles her forehead and laughs us to scorn, and points to us as the only rubbish in the house; and she complains that we are totally useless, and recommends our being bartered away at once for fine caps and cambrics or silks, for double-dyed purple stuffs, for woollen and linen and fur.' 'Nay,' they add, 'we are sold like slaves or left as unredeemed pledges in taverns: we are given to cruel butchers to be slaughtered like sheep or cattle. Every tailor, or ...

— The Great Book-Collectors • Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton

... your wife before you have found her?" he asked. "You fool! you double-dyed fool! If that girl chooses to tell her story, suspicion falls on you. And if anybody makes a fuss and demands an inquest or anything of ...

— The Slave of Silence • Fred M. White

... much so, that the strong point of our position—the double-dyed guilt of the factor's nephew—failed to occur to any of us; and we looked for only instant incarceration. I still remember the intense feeling of shame I used to experience every time I crossed my mother's door for the street—the agonizing, all-engrossing belief that every one was looking ...

— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller

Words linked to "Double-dyed" : unmitigated