arrant

• adj.非常に邪悪な; 悪名高い; 真っ赤な

errantの変化形で、侮蔑的な意味を持つ。

arrant

arrant: [16] Arrant is an alteration of errant, as in knight errant. This originally meant ‘roaming, wandering’, but its persistent application to nouns with negative connotations, such as rogue and thief, gradually drove its meaning downwards by association, to ‘notorious’.
=> errant

arrant (adj.)

late 14c., variant of errant (q.v.); at first merely derogatory, "wandering, vagrant;" then (1540s) acquiring a meaning "thoroughgoing, downright, notorious."

1. That 's arrant nonsense.

それはまったくのでたらめだ。

2.He is an arrant fool.

彼は大バカだ。

3.The most arrant nonsense about a product is never questioned.

そして広告の中で最も言語道断なものに疑問を呈した人はいない。

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

私たちはすべて完全な大嘘つきで、私たちを信じないでください。

5.What an arrant hypocrite！

なんて悪い偽善者なの！