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utter stupidity
Definition
complete or total (used as an intensifier—typically when stressing how bad something is)
- Humorous and gentle when sober, he changed utterly and would do anything to get alcohol.p. 58.4
- By the time she was twenty she was living in Colombo and tentatively engaged to Shelton de Saram—a very good looking and utterly selfish man.p. 113.9
- His diplomat's face is utterly shocked.p. 156.9
- Almost utterly humble.p. 168.1
- To us he was an utterly charming man, always gracious.p. 175.2
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- I want to sit down with someone and talk with utter directness, want to talk to all the lost history like that deserving lover.p. 54.9
- On one of the last occasions that my mother left my father, after the tirade that was brief, loud, alcoholically one-sided, she told him she was leaving him at moo P.M. She bundled us all up and, after my father grabbed the car key and threw it into the darkness of a hundred tea bushes, she got four servants and with each of us on a pair of shoulders, marched off through tea estate and dense jungle in utter darkness to a neighbouring home five miles away.p. 170.6
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