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utterly English

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utterly

Refers to something being completely or entirely, usually used in a negative way. Jim's proposal was utterly ridiculous. How utterly generous of you to offer me the use of your beach house for the month! Karen's manners are utterly gross. She practiced the Black Key Etude until she was utterly exhausted.

utterly

(= absolutely, perfectly, dead) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers an absolutely magnificent painting a perfectly idiotic idea you're perfectly right utterly miserable you can be dead sure of my innocence was dead tired dead right

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Topics utterly topics

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Examples utterly examples

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Simple sentences

I utterly despise formal writing!
The report is utterly false.
The shy boy was utterly embarrassed in her presence.
He is utterly impossible.
He felt utterly humiliated.
I'm utterly convinced of it.
Tom was utterly disappointed.
Utterly different from Tom was his friend John, who was kind and benevolent.
Tom felt utterly humiliated.
This is utterly ingenious.
This is utterly insane.
Gilbert Blythe was trying to make Anne Shirley look at him and failing utterly.
He is utterly unguarded.
Tom is utterly obsessed with food. No wonder Mary dumped him!
Tom is utterly disorientated.
The forest path had been utterly covered by snow.
Tom said he was utterly exhausted.

Movie subtitles

But it was utterly transformed in 1 086 by the great Chinese inventor Su Song.
It could ruin the place utterly, besides cutting us off from the dukes.
I'm told that you wish to buy the centry and put up some more of your chimneys there, regardless of the fact that you'd utterly ruin a house we've had for generations and all of our pleasure here.
You're being utterly hateful.
It's utterly mad!
You're utterly unthreatening.
If Cyrus hadn't been utterly incompetent, I'd have been the first heir.
You're utterly unbearable.
The last number on our Fantasia program is a combination of two pieces of music so utterly different in construction and mood that they set each other off perfectly.
Utterly insupportable!
It brings up the dreadful, unfounded suspicion. we must carry to our tombs, as it is utterly untenable, that the coachman in both instances. need I say more?
Inactive? You are utterly mistaken.
I should have been utterly wretched and ashamed.
I felt so utterly humiliated and defeated and so dreadfully, dreadfully ashamed.
I refuse absolutely and utterly!
First, I want to know what you mean by breaking in here like an assassin. and causing this utterly ridiculous scene!
That's utterly impossible.
Turn out all your men. Cover the whole town. It's an utterly ridiculous situation. but by crikey I'm not gonna take any chances.
Every company, troop, arms, stores, everything, utterly destroyed.
Your husband. Without her, my woods are no longer poetic. And his gamekeeper's job utterly dull.
What you suggest is utterly impossible.
Why, the whole thing is utterly ridiculous.
I shall vanish utterly, completely, as if I were dead for as long as you wish.
You know I'd be utterly lost without you.
Any girl would have to be utterly mad about a man to marry him after this.
He says that without her, my woods lack poetry, and his gamekeeper's job seems utterly dreary.
You're utterly and completely.
Darling, utterly free.
He's an utterly selfish, cold-hearted pig.
You're so utterly different from Sebastian.
His convictions were utterly different from mine.
It wasn't enough that their fellow man was their enemy. Nature was there too. and in a single night wiped them out utterly.
Mr. Korvo, it's utterly impossible.
My dear Ann, you're being utterly absurd.
As a man, I'm despicable, utterly, completely.
So utterly uncavalier.
I'M STILL SO UTTERLY CONFUSED.

News and current affairs

Despite the dedicated efforts of many professionals, the response to the hunger crisis remains utterly inadequate.
There are many other similar commitments that the US has made in recent years to the UN that remain utterly unfulfilled.
This is not to say that the economic concept of politics is utterly strange to the Chinese - or, for that matter, that the religious notion of politics is unknown in the democratic West.
Health education through public media, reaching distant areas of the country, is an urgent priority, but has been utterly ignored in favor of commercial priorities.
So they feel utterly disconnected from the process of transformation.
For too long, the Bank's leadership has imposed US concepts that are often utterly inappropriate for the poorest countries and their poorest people.
The possibility that a girl wearing a headscarf might in fact be rebelling against her parents and their kind of Islam, and that others might be deeply pious while being utterly revolted by gender discrimination or violence, is lost from view.
The concept of interim agreements has now become utterly obsolete, if only because the parties are incapable of paying the political price inherent in an open-ended, piecemeal process.
The supply-siders, for their part, seem utterly oblivious to the dependence of private investment on complementary public investment and a clear policy and regulatory framework.
With the United Nations sanctions regime now having proven to be utterly ineffective, and with international diplomacy apparently futile in preventing the Iranians from mastering the technology for enriching uranium, Israel is being boxed into a corner.
We are at the juncture between the old medicine and the new - still mired in the limitations of the old but able to see on the horizon something utterly different in conception.
Anything less would be utterly unacceptable to ordinary Russians traumatized by the body count of dead hostages in Moscow.
But enough has already been said and done to indicate that this is not the only possible path; that the goal of transnational citizenship is not utterly unreal.
The best defense against these pressures is to operate according to utterly unambiguous criteria.
The first calls for the world to deem as utterly unacceptable state violence that seeks to impose conformity and discipline.
For the last four years, the LDP had shown itself to be utterly unresponsive to the key issues of popular concern: pensions, unemployment, and the fraying social safety net.
Growing talk - both in Europe and America - about boycotting the Olympics (or the opening ceremony) has proven utterly ineffective in influencing China's behavior in Tibet.
This revolution will be tremendously generous to those countries that embrace it - and utterly indifferent, even cruel, to those that ignore it or let it pass by.
In the case of Qatar, this meant the right to stage the World Cup in an utterly unsuitable climate, in stadiums hastily built under terrible conditions by underpaid foreign workers with few rights.
In a society with weakened immunity to extremism - and with an utterly dysfunctional government - the authorities are, perhaps literally, playing with fire.

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