(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.
Errant
Definition:
(a.) Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
(a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.
(n.) One who wanders about.
Example Sentences:
(1) Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, said he would be astonished if the coalition had not enacted a lobbyists' register and a power to recall errant MPs by 2015.
(2) To do that, it needed to stamp down on errant food industry practices.
(3) "Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president's airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close."
(4) They also produced soft boots with Velcro straps, parent-friendly, one-strap bindings (though kids can also ride without) and a Riglet Reel tow rope that tacks on to the front of the board so that you can pull your toddler along like an errant spaniel, while giving them a good idea of the snow-riding sensation they are aiming for.
(5) The lead stood at two goals before Andre Marriner's errant judgment.
(6) That’s why a boycott is such an ineffective path to shaming our errant oligarchs, particularly in the case of LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
(7) Fisher was forgiven and is busy organising for Momentum , the grassroots Corbyn campaign to bring errant MPs to heel.
(8) Being sutureless, no tension is placed on any layer; there is no damage to tissues from an errant suturing technique.
(9) Neonatal patients received the lowest rate of errant orders.
(10) The next few days will be critical as Beijing weighs up its options, but for now the likelihood is that China will chose cautious diplomatic hedging rather than decisive action against its errant North Korean ally.
(11) 49 min: Another half-hearted Paraguay attack ends in failure, when an errant pass is played straight to the feet of one of New Zealand's very well organised back three.
(12) Ministers are to revive shelved plans for laws to be introduced before 2015 to regulate lobbyists and recall errant MPs following days of sleaze allegations which may well have damaged the standing of parliament.
(13) Can he get these errant types – known disparagingly as à la carte or cafeteria Catholics – to dine from the fixed menu?
(14) The purpose of this study was to record prospectively the frequency of and potential harm caused by errant medication orders at two large pediatric hospitals.
(15) Mr Holder is also pressing voting rights lawsuits across the county that directly challenge Chief Justice John Roberts’s errant view that the era of racial discrimination in the United States is over.
(16) One of my clients waited until midnight for his errant son to visit to play Scrabble with him – the son never arrived.
(17) He was prevented from giving Liverpool the first major Premier League win of the Brendan Rodgers' era only by an assistant referee's errant flag for offside in stoppage time.
(18) Vickers said Ipso would have an investigative arm and would impose tough sanctions on errant publishers, including fines of up to £1m for systemic wrongdoing, giving it "absolute teeth, very real teeth".
(19) As far as much of the audience is concerned, these errant former child stars seem like exotic commodities to be traded on the scandal market, although they are also clearly just young people living under abnormal levels of scrutiny.
(20) The combined results of the mutation and adduct characterizations suggest that there are basic differences in the structural configuration of each adduct species which are recognized during errant DNA repair and as a result lead to base changes at a frequency which is relatable to the configuration of the original adduct lesion.