"Forsooth, and is it so?" growled Roger, his scowl relaxing"now will I eat full and blithely, for Ralpho was an arrant knave.

He could all but talk and was another with the children, but an arrant thief.

I have a private Coat for Italian Steeletto's, I can be treacherous with the Wallowne, drunke with the Dutch, a Chimney-sweeper with the Irish, a Gentleman with the Welsh[202] and turne arrant theefe with the English: what then is my Country to me? Queen.

As arrant knaves, if I keep you company.

We are arrant Knaues all[10],

Therefore dear Ned, at my advice forbear, Such loud complaints 'gainst critics to prefer, Since thou art turn'd an arrant libeller: Thou sett'st thy name to what thyself do'st write; Did ever libel yet so sharply bite?

Adj. manifest, apparent; salient, striking, demonstrative, prominent, in the foreground, notable, pronounced. flagrant; notorious &c (public) 531; arrant; stark staring; unshaded, glaring. defined, definite.

Adj. published &c v.; current &c (news) 532; in circulation, public; notorious; flagrant, arrant; open &c 525; trumpet-tongued; encyclical, encyclic^, promulgatory^; exoteric.

deadly &c (killing) 361; destructive &c (destroying) 162; inauspicious &c 859. bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible; dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core.

The most arrant denier must admit that a man often furthers larger ends than he is conscious of, and that while he is transacting his particular affairs with the narrow pertinacity of a respectable ant, he subserves an economy larger than any purpose of his own.

" "He always was an arrant coward where trouble was concerned.

He found Donna Eleanora de Garzia a grown woman and a woman of the world; an arrant flirt, like her protectress, the Duchess Isabella; dividing her time between the Villa Poggio Baroncelli and his father's villa at Castello.

What puzzled him was the uniform gravity which they accorded equallyas it appeared to himto the discussion of the most pompous platitudes and of the most arrant nonsense.

After she had taken the pork, she looked round a minute and said, "Wal, arter all, I nigh upon forgot my arrant.

"Did you ever see two gentlemen that hated each other more cordially?" "She is an arrant little flirt, isn't she, Micky?"

he exclaimed, as the other ended; "and a thousand pities is it that so honest a fellow should be so arrant a knave.

It is not every one who can tell a man he is an arrant coward without offending him.

I tried not tono one could be more keenly alive to the arrant absurdity of the histrionic bearing.

"Then we must set down this Sir Smees, after all, for an arrant rogue; for this is the very man we met at Benedetta's the past night.

Note, The Person wearing the Feather, tho our Friend took him for an Officer in the Guards, has proved to be [an arrant Linnen-Draper.

Some who have tried them, if you'll take their oaths, Swear they're as arrant tinsel as their clothes.

" I stared at him in amazement; for his assertion sounded like nothing more or less than arrant nonsense.

We were arrant cowards.

St Jerom, St Hilary, Eusebius Vercellensis, Victorinus, and several others, were all guilty of arrant forgery and corruption: For when they translated the works of several freethinkers, whom they called heretics, they omitted all their heresies or freethinkings, and had the impudence to own it to the world.

I was a youth then, and an arrant fool!