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double-dyed en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely coloured.
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(figuratively, not-comparable) Firmly fixed in opinions or habits; confirmed; inveterate.
a double-dyed villain
"People who have extensive grounds themselves are always pleased with any thing in the same style" Emma doubted the truth of this sentiment. She had a great idea that people who had extensive grounds themselves cared very little for the extensive grounds of any body else; but it was not worth while to attack an error so double-dyed […]
1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 14: