wholly

[US]/'həʊllɪ/
[UK]/'holli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. completely; entirely; altogether

Phrases & Collocations

wholly committed

wholly agree

wholly owned subsidiary

Example Sentences

They don't wholly agree with you.

I wholly agree with you.

these labels prove to be wholly inadequate.

American tourists wholly innocent of French.

conduct wholly inconformable to our principles

Your idea isn't wholly practical.

the concern she'd felt for him had wholly dissipated.

he had arrived at a wholly insupportable conclusion.

she found herself given over wholly to sensation.

The government's plan for the artificial scenery spots is wholly misconceived.

I am wholly incredulous of the truth of his story.

His story is wholly fictitious.

She had acted in ways that he found wholly admirable.

he cannot deduce his descent wholly by heirs male.

the meaning of an utterance does not wholly reside in the semantic meaning.

Can the catholicon of TCL-to be listed wholly-really go into effect?

Correct treatment of plate thermal epeirogeny shows the previous wholly-vertical contraction/expansion requirement to be erroneous.

Real-world Examples

" But perhaps it is not wholly because of you that I get gloomy, " she archly added.

Source: Returning Home

I'm afraid I find the idea of a married man flirting with me wholly repugnant.

Source: Downton Abbey (Audio Segmented Version) Season 3

That may not have been wholly true.

Source: Super Girl Season 2 S02

Such pieties are not wholly convincing.

Source: AP Listening Collection July 2015

It isn't wholly our fault in the here and now.

Source: Scientific World

Boy, this is a wholly different conflict now.

Source: Big Think Super Thoughts

James Hook, thou not wholly unheroic figure, farewell.

Source: Peter Pan

I devised a coherent system for living. It was a moral system, which was wholly logical.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 4

Neither is wholly right or wrong.

Source: Sociology of Social Relations (Video Version)

Give your attention wholly to riches; ignore poverty.

Source: The Lost Wealth Classics

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