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utter stupidity
Definition
complete or total (used as an intensifier—typically when stressing how bad something is)
- My reason wavered, but it did not fail me utterly.p. 101.8
- I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change.p. 85.9
There are no more uses of "utter" flagged with this meaning in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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exact meaning not specified
- At sight of the contents, he uttered one loud sob of such immense relief that I sat petrified.p. 78.6
- But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.p. 49.9
- This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life.p. 106.2
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