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Utterly   /ˈətərli/   Listen
Utterly

adverb
1.
Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers.  Synonyms: absolutely, dead, perfectly.  "A perfectly idiotic idea" , "You're perfectly right" , "Utterly miserable" , "You can be dead sure of my innocence" , "Was dead tired" , "Dead right"






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"Utterly" Quotes from Famous Books



... four o clock in the morning and compelled to work for a bare subsistence until ten, eleven, or twelve at night, their limbs wearing away, their frames dwindling, their faces whitening, and their humanity absolutely sinking into a stone-like torpor, utterly ...
— Proposed Roads To Freedom • Bertrand Russell

... one, for instance; suppose that it had been appointed that on a certain day, at a certain hour and minute and second and fraction of a second he should go to the well, and he didn't go. That man's career would change utterly, from that moment; thence to the grave it would be wholly different from the career which his first act as a child had arranged for him. Indeed, it might be that if he had gone to the well he would have ended his career on a throne, and that omitting to do it would set him upon a ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... feet uneasily. He could not have told at that moment whether or not he had intended to murder Ferguson. He had waylaid him with that intention, utterly forgetful that by shooting the stray-man he would be committing the very crime which he had accused Ferguson of contemplating. The muzzle of ...
— The Two-Gun Man • Charles Alden Seltzer

... you always treat me as a baby!" and there was the most delicate, yet an utterly indescribable, sort of reproach in her voice and attitude, as ...
— Annette, The Metis Spy • Joseph Edmund Collins

... empty laugh, staggered forward even as his spent steed had done, and Nicodemus caught him and lowered him to the floor. He sat quite helpless, fully conscious, yet with the strength of his limbs gone from him for the moment utterly. ...
— Nicanor - Teller of Tales - A Story of Roman Britain • C. Bryson Taylor


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