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utter stupidity
Definition
complete or total (used as an intensifier—typically when stressing how bad something is)
- That she would do that to him , that she could, when he had spent most of his adult life thinking the word writer was the most important definition of himself , made her seem utterly monstrous, something he must escape.Part 1 — Annie (28% in)
- He slept the whole night through for the first time since coming out of the gray cloud, and his sleep was for the first time utterly without dreams.Part 2 — Misery (18% in)
- It was not repeated, but it was utterly distinctive.Part 2 — Misery (51% in)
- He was suddenly, utterly sure that she meant to pull the knife from the wall and castrate him with it.Part 2 — Misery (95% in)
- If so, then he was faced with an idiocy that was utterly colossal: he owed his survival to the fact that he wanted to finish the piece of shit Annie had coerced him into writing.Part 3 — Paul (9% in)
- Could you let me in on , Then it came, it came at once, the way all the really ideas came, rounded and smooth and utterly persuasive in its baleful perfection.Part 3 — Paul (60% in)
There are no more uses of "utter" flagged with this meaning in Misery.
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exact meaning not specified
- This new expression was one of utter horror mingled with an almost demented hope.Part 2 — Misery (31% in)
- Every now and then she would utter 'Goodness!' to the empty rooms.Part 1 — Annie (57% in)
- 'It looks good,' he said, uttering the biggest lie of his life with perfect ease, and then asked the question to which he already knew the answer.Part 1 — Annie (62% in)
- He had once asked for them in a timid and tentative voice, and she had given him a look of such utter darkness that he had told her at once to forget it.Part 2 — Misery (46% in)
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