What's the difference between arrant and arrantly?

Arrant


Definition:

  • (a.) Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward.
  • (a.) Thorough or downright, in a good sense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "And he is at a loss whether to pity a people who take such arrant trifles in good earnest or to envy that happiness which enables a community to discuss them."
  • (2) It will not be easy, but you must do your best to withstand the arrant nonsense of short-term wheezes such as Help to Buy , designed to boost short-term demand and court political favour, but certain to heap more on to the debt mountain.
  • (3) Aside from the fact that it's pretty damn important for success-starved Sunderland too, this is arrant nonsense.
  • (4) But he's uniquely frustrating because of the way his books combine arrant cobblers with smatterings of sense.
  • (5) Extract : Go to 6:35 in the YouTube snippet of the podcast, and listen to Rogan’s initial scepticism about elite paedophile rings collapse under Jones’s of torrent of half-truths and arrant nonsense.

Arrantly


Definition:

  • (adv.) Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "And he is at a loss whether to pity a people who take such arrant trifles in good earnest or to envy that happiness which enables a community to discuss them."
  • (2) It will not be easy, but you must do your best to withstand the arrant nonsense of short-term wheezes such as Help to Buy , designed to boost short-term demand and court political favour, but certain to heap more on to the debt mountain.
  • (3) Aside from the fact that it's pretty damn important for success-starved Sunderland too, this is arrant nonsense.
  • (4) But he's uniquely frustrating because of the way his books combine arrant cobblers with smatterings of sense.
  • (5) Extract : Go to 6:35 in the YouTube snippet of the podcast, and listen to Rogan’s initial scepticism about elite paedophile rings collapse under Jones’s of torrent of half-truths and arrant nonsense.

Words possibly related to "arrant"

Words possibly related to "arrantly"