double-dyed

British  

adjective

1. confirmed; inveterate

   a double-dyed villain

2. dyed twice

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Example Sentences

“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 first barrel he aimed at Senator Long, Father Coughlin and others who have cast aspersions on him as a double-dyed Wall Streeter.

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

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

She considered it an act of the very basest ingratitude and the most double-dyed deceit, and was the more particularly angry because the episode had brought the school into discredit.

From The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life by Campbell, John