"She is an arrant fool," quoth Mistress Clorinda to her father. "A nice duenna she would be, forsooth, if she were with a woman who needed watching. She could be hoodwinked as it pleased me a dozen times a day. It is I who am her guard, not she mine! But a beauty must drag some spy about with her, it seems, and she I can make to obey me like a spaniel. We can afford no better, and she is well born, and since I bought her the purple paduasoy and the new lappets she has looked well enough to serve."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"That did they," quoth Clorinda, mocking again. "They knew that I would not receive him to-day, and so sent him away. He might have known as much himself, but he is an arrant popinjay, and thinks all women wish to look at his fine shape, and hear him flatter them when he is in the mood."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
But the favors which Olivia bestowed upon this mere page aroused the jealousy of Sir Andrew Aguecheek, a foolish, rejected lover of hers, who at that time was staying at her house with her merry old uncle Sir Toby. This same Sir Toby dearly loved a practical joke, and knowing Sir Andrew to be an arrant coward, he thought that if he could bring off a duel between him and Cesario, there would be rare sport indeed. So he induced Sir Andrew to send a challenge, which he himself took to Cesario. The poor page, in great terror, said--英文原著 · 《Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare》
Otherwise we should not need a mediator. In Christian theology the Law does not justify. In fact it has the contrary effect. The Law alarms us, it magnifies our sins until we begin to hate the Law and its divine Author. Would you call this being justified by the Law? Can you imagine a more arrant outrage than to hate God and to abhor His Law? What an excellent Law it is. Listen: "I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.英文原著 · 《Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians》
Well, brother Prospero, by this good light that shines here, I am loth to kindle fresh coals, but an you had come in my walk within these two hours I had given you that you should not have clawed off again in haste, by Jesus, I had done it, I am the arrant'st rogue that ever breathed else, but now beshrew my heart if I bear you any malice in the earth.英文原著 · 《Every Man in his Humour》
WARWICK. [Aside.] How shall I enter in this graceless arrant? I must not call her child, for where's the father
That will in such a suit seduce his child? Then, 'wife of Salisbury'; shall I so begin? No, he's my friend, and where is found the friend
That will do friendship such indammagement?英文原著 · 《King Edward the Third》
AI 补充例句（附中文翻译）
It is arrant nonsense to suggest that the project will be finished by tomorrow.
The politician was dismissed after being caught in an act of arrant dishonesty.那位政客因被抓到有极度不诚实的行为而被解职。
He showed an arrant disregard for the safety of his fellow passengers on board.