Sentence examples similar to arrant fool from inspiring English sources

But Gen. Powell, the Bush White House, and Congress were either arrant fools for swallowing all the lies about Iraq or knew it was all a big lie.

Fools! Fools!

But we were fools, she and I, arrant blockheads, each of us blind to or heedless of the readiest explanation: that the world is an ungettable joke, and our human need to explain its wonders and horrors, our appalling genius for devising such explanations, is nothing more than the rim shot that accompanies the punch line.

"That is arrant romanticism".

So why the arrant Yankophobia?

What arrant nonsense!

This is juvenile, arrant nonsense.

Football commentators have always talked arrant poppycock.

It happens to be arrant nonsense.

On balance, this arrant unhipness is a good thing.

We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.