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Meanings of thoroughgoing in inglês
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
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.
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
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 thoroughgoing in inglês
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.
6
He was one of my churchwardens, a capital fellow, so thoroughgoing and reliable.
7
For the Sergeant was a thoroughgoing fellow quite incapable of a divided interest.
8
They continued to insist that only thoroughgoing reforms can solve the Jewish question.
9
There is no more thoroughgoing snob, in certain ways, than a high-bred dog.
10
For society as a whole, a thoroughgoing eugenic program must include:
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The thoroughgoing character of this helplessness suggests, however, some compensating power.
12
She was not thoroughbred, but she had tried to be thoroughgoing.
13
At last I came to the conclusion... that I was a thoroughgoing scamp.
14
Any other organisation would face a thoroughgoing investigation from the outside.
15
Democracy believes in education, but has not commonly the patience to make education thoroughgoing.
16
If I am aristocratic in my preferences, I am also a pretty thoroughgoing American.
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