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
There is enough more plot, however, to see Monique comfortably�and the audience fairly apprehensively�through a full evening; enough for the villainy to be double-dyed and the victim never surely dead.
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
Bernhard has neglected her, and Werner has consoled her, while I, fool, double-dyed fool that I am, suspected nothing!
From The Eichhofs A Romance by Reichenbach, Moritz von
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