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Meanings of utter in English
Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers.
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Examples for "perfect"
Examples for "perfect"
1
Today is the perfect day, and topic, for a New Year resolution.
2
Yes, and today had been the perfect example, she wanted to say.
3
And beware, advertised ranges often are the maximum possible given perfect conditions.
4
Group 4: Republic of Ireland v Cyprus: Well, a perfect weekend really.
5
Today will offer perfect conditions, as the country takes to the roads.
1
Evidently, no 'complete solution' to the 'Jewish problem' was yet in sight.
2
Results: Ninety-four patients met study criteria and had complete outcome data available.
3
Our aim is to complete this work early in the new year.
4
A complete solution to identify and challenge children working at mastery level.
5
An Israeli military source said the operation might take weeks to complete.
1
The young captain looked stunned for a moment, staring right past Hoffman.
2
Not a creature abroad; the tall gaunt houses staring in the moonlight.
3
For a long moment she didn't answer, staring at the wall art.
4
Jane was staring at her, waiting for an answer to her question.
5
No; Jacqueline was staring at Pettifer's corpse, asking the question of him.
1
However, a 'no refunds' policy for pure change of mind is acceptable.
2
The air was pure and fresher; the mules and the travellers revived.
3
In the case of the desert, it is conversion, pure and simple.
4
The chief factor in the purchase of Alaska was almost pure sentiment.
5
The ladies soon reappeared in spotless white; emblems of their pure minds.
1
Several security protocols were overlooked during this supposed gross abuse of power.
2
Durham police decided he had a case to answer for gross misconduct.
3
Rising apparel costs could also weigh on Sears' gross margins next year.
4
Similar, limited areas of gross deprivation are identified within our major cities.
5
The street value of the drugs trafficked far exceeds gross national product.
1
It's an unusually stark and public example of a far bigger problem.
2
I am also driven by the stark financial reality of the situation.
3
The answer is not a punchline, it is a stark political reality.
4
In time-honoured fashion, talk of promise has been undermined by stark reality.
5
The Department of Health declined to respond directly to Baker's stark warning.
1
Drink long; in this wine lurk the seeds of the life everlasting.
2
He saw the shine of the everlasting stars in the deep blue.
3
No; it was something in them, something inborn and subtle and everlasting.
4
At Jesus' right hand, the righteous received the reward of everlasting life.
5
Search the scriptures: for you think in them to have life everlasting.
1
The consummate pleasure is not in the costly flavor, but in yourself.
2
Quesnel followed her lead with the consummate skill of a natural charlatan.
3
In Poetry -illustrious and consummate: In Friendship -noble and sincere.
4
An apparently simple movement, but it was consummate in grace and display.
5
SanDisk will require Toshiba's approval to consummate a deal with either party.
1
He was looking past history and into the abyss of unadulterated truth.
2
The journal paper is unadulterated by the spin of any press release.
3
Simpson is 100 percent unadulterated sleaze, said a lawyer for Goldman's father.
4
The unadulterated cow is a deal too strong to be drunk alone.
5
With a half-maniacal cackle of unadulterated glee, McCaverty pushed the throttle forward.
1
The other canon shook his head in dismay at such arrant folly.
2
I should think the less arrant gossip the children heard, the better.
3
When you talk in that style I feel like an arrant hypocrite.
4
His anger had the strange effect of making him an arrant coward.
5
He was an arrant coward like the most of his downtrodden race.
1
Only the National Government can in thoroughgoing fashion exercise the needed control.
2
And therefore they made it their object to extol practical, thoroughgoing reforms.
3
Partly, I think, by not being overly concerned with logic and thoroughgoing consistency.
4
Yes, decidedly, he was no classicist in music; he was a thoroughgoing transcendentalist.
5
For suddenness and thoroughgoing completeness the Gaston bubble-bursting was a record-breaker.
1
Didn't have sodding clue what I was doing when I started there.
2
Too sodding mean to pay out his one-and-six, that's what it is.
3
The sodding off of the terrorist tossers is devoutly to be wished.
4
Will we ever find out who killed Gertrud in season sodding two?
5
Why, they'd be a bunch of sodding blockheads not to see that.
1
I begin to suspect you of deep double-dyed surreptitious designs, Mr. Olmstead.
2
It was Sackett-Murray, gambler, horse-thief, house-robber, deserter, biter, murderer, and double-dyed traitor.
3
You see I rather dreaded your coming as that of a double-dyed Pritchard.
4
If you're a double-dyed sinner, you can easily get yourself whitewashed over there.
5
This colonel swore us both to double-dyed secrecy, over and above our 'status' oaths.
Usage of utter in English
1
His paper was so far an utter blank save for his name.
2
However, it is in their flower form that they reach utter perfection.
3
This is such an important area and can lead to utter frustration.
4
It was the surprise, of course, the utter transformation I'd just witnessed.
5
The terrified soldier must utter words to get the torture to stop.
6
The men utter similar salutations; and Sekeletu receives all with becoming indifference.
7
No animal, as far as he knew, would utter such a sound.
8
There was expression enough in his voice now; expression of utter despondency.
9
Mallick, staring, drink forgotten despite his utter scepticism, raised a brow, 'Yes?
10
In the silence of utter bewilderment they went together into the summer-house.
11
His stomach was gone; his whole digestive apparatus was in utter disorder.
12
The unhappy woman glanced from one to the other in utter despair.
13
He was the first to utter anti-slavery principles in the Western hemisphere.
14
To make the situation more terrifying the cabin was in utter darkness.
15
You must seek, and attain, utter relaxation, while your thoughts remain hyperalert.
16
The match had burnt out, and the room was in utter darkness.
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United Kingdom
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