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 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
The action is based on the complications resulting when a wealthy clubman happens to resemble a double-dyed crook.
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
We were terribly frightened; so much so, that the strong point of our position—the double-dyed guilt of the factor's nephew—failed to occur to any of us; and we looked for only instant incarceration.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh
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