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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

... Bob. "But I've heard enough already to feel sure that that fellow Cassey is a double-dyed crook. He simply saw that he had an inexperienced girl to deal with and he made the most ...

— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman

... intentions all round. The Prince's and Charlotte's were beautiful—of THAT I had my faith. They WERE—I'd go to the stake. Otherwise," she added, "I should have been a wretch. And I've not been a wretch. I've only been a double-dyed donkey." ...

— The Golden Bowl • Henry James

... that," said Harkaway, "for it would have been a good thing to take care of that double-dyed traitor, but no matter, we shall have nothing to fear from him now; we have had enough of ...

— Jack Harkaway and his son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece • Bracebridge Hemyng

... who had shed blood during Passion-tide, to be disembowelled after death; and for plotting the King's death, his dismembered limbs were to be sent to Winchester, York, Northampton, and Bristol. Seldom has a shameful and violent death been better merited than by a double-dyed traitor like David, false by turns to his country and his king; nor could justice be better honored than by making the last penalty of rebellion fall upon the guilty Prince, rather than ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume VI. • Various

Words linked to "Double-dyed" : unmitigated