"Arrant" (AR-unt) – from the Latin for "a journey" – means downright/ confirmed/ extreme/ notorious. It was originally a variant spelling of "errant" (meaning "wandering") and was applied to vagabonds.
Example (as used by J.D. McClatchy in The New York Times): "More deplorable is his [James Dickey's] arrant and compulsive hypocrisy…. Under all the chest hair, he was a hollow man."
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