He was only saved by his intellect and his fine nature from turning out an arrant prig.

Swift, who was intimate with him, speaks of him as "an arrant knave"; but the dean may have been disappointed at being unmentioned in Rivers's will, for he made a fierce comment on the earl's bequests to his mistresses and his neglect of his friends.

I have never heard more arrant nonsense in my life.

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arrant nonsense in my life.