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• s  performed comprehensively and completely
  thoroughgoing research
• s  without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
  a thoroughgoing villain

• A thoroughgoing reprobate, he became Dictator of Venezuela 27 years ago when Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler had scarcely a political thought in their heads.
• Boiled down, the union's demands were simple and thoroughgoing.
• Craftsman-like writing, direction and acting (notably by Christopher Plummer as a thoroughgoing heel, and by Susan Flannery, playing that television rarity, a genuinely mature .

• exhaustive
• thorough
• arrant
• complete
• consummate
• double-dyed
• everlasting
• gross
• perfect
• pure
• sodding
• stark
• staring
• utter
• unadulterated

News & Articles

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• Vincent Gray apologizes for 2010 campaign in TV interview
  Mayor Vincent C. Gray will offer his most thoroughgoing regrets about his troubled 2010 campaign, his campaign manager said Wednesday.
  Jan. 8, 2014 - Washington Post

Quotes

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• Ben Stein in Forbes
  I'm struck by what an incredibly capable, hard-working guy he is,Stein told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Thursday. "He's a very smart liberal, he's a thoroughgoing patriot, and I would feel better with him in the Senate."
• Paul Volcker in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  In fact, the entire UN "requires stronger executive leadership, thoroughgoing administrative reform and more reliable controls and auditing," as the Volcker panel noted.
• Mao Zedong in Bay Area Indymedia
  We are as Comrade Mao Zedong said "Thoroughgoing materialists are fearless; we hope that all our fellow fighters will courageously shoulder their responsibilities and overcome all difficulties, fearing no setbacks or gibes, nor hesitating to...