double-dyed
Britishadjective
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confirmed; inveterate
a double-dyed villain
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dyed twice
Example Sentences
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“They have more soul,” Berkofsky said of his patterned carbon-steel knives, which feature elegant handles he has sculpted in rare wood such as charred Osage orange, black ash burl and live edge double-dyed maple.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025
The action is based on the complications resulting when a wealthy clubman happens to resemble a double-dyed crook.
From Time Magazine Archive
Waiter Marlowe found it hard to get used to the poor wages and strait-jacket discipline of English waiters, but harder to stomach the double-dyed snobbery of his fellows, the hyper-finickiness of aged guests.
From Time Magazine Archive
His heroines are outright symbols of purity, his villains 'are double-dyed, his heroes are properly heroic.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is no use in trying to prepare you for it, since you would never conceive such double-dyed blackness of heart!
From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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