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  • s  without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
    a double-dyed villain

  • According to an apparently authoritative article in Current History, these three Presidents are three despots, double-dyed villains, low-born knaves, blood-sucking tyrants .
  • 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 .
  • His heroines are outright symbols of purity, his villains 'are double-dyed, his heroes are properly heroic.

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