adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deeply/utterly/wholly etc repugnant
fully/totally/wholly committed
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Both sides claim to be fully committed to the peace process.
highly/entirely/wholly appropriate
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I thought his remark was highly appropriate, given the circumstances.
not entirely/wholly/completely
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Frege’s theory is not entirely satisfactory.
totally/wholly/woefully/hopelessly etc inadequate
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The building’s electrical system was completely inadequate.
wholly/entirely useless
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From his point of view qualifications are wholly useless.
wholly/totally/completely etc inappropriate
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His comments were wholly inappropriate on such a solemn occasion.
wholly/utterly/totally etc convincing
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Courtenay played the role in an utterly convincing way.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
appropriate
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Is not this subject wholly appropriate for the Minister, because his Government have had their chips?
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There are occasions when it is wholly appropriate for you to break the diet and eat something that is not allowed.
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It was wholly appropriate that to reach this landmark the jockey would have to produce one of his greatest efforts.
dependent
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Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty, it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training.
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Most of our employees are wholly dependent on their employment with us for their survival.
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But this area, too, was wholly dependent on engineers for its existence.
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It evoked a huge and apparently permanent armament industry, now wholly dependent ... on government contracts.
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Ecgberht may have received wide support in Kent and can not necessarily be regarded as wholly dependent on Offa for his kingship.
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But they are still highly circumscribed in their authority, and wholly dependent upon their salaried employment.
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Accordingly, he was wholly dependent upon Adenauer for his position, and could present no political threat.
different
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Sometimes, perhaps not very often during their lifetimes, volcanoes erupt and present a wholly different character.
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He had avoided detection during the war, when for wholly different reasons he was murdered by the Saigon secret police.
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That is a wholly different argument and it is therefore important to concentrate on it.
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It requires a wholly different set of skills, based on ideas, people skills and values.
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That is, they involve a second and wholly different relation, a semantic or intentional relation between themselves and whatever they represent.
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The choir outing was wholly different .
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Mr Ashcroft's case is wholly different .
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They, however, have a wholly different outlook because of transubstantiation, which sounds like a disease but is a doctrine.
free
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That is, she is exempt from supervision but not wholly free to choose her own activities.
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It is not that Western tradition has been wholly free of references to celestial phenomena.
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It would be idle to pretend that the Trust is wholly free from some of these faults; few organisations are.
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One would assume that she was wholly free to marry, but did not do so because...
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It is also the meaning of the doctrine that he alone was perfect and wholly free from sin.
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But this was to be a market that was not wholly free or spontaneous.
inadequate
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Also the warning system was wholly inadequate .
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The traditional shop class is wholly inadequate to prepare young people for this new world.
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Council representatives immediately criticised the allocations as wholly inadequate .
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All the obvious expressions of sympathy were wholly inadequate .
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The time-consuming tasks of keeping families clean and fed were for the most part carried out with wholly inadequate equipment in depressing surroundings.
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The fog bank was unattainable and rather than surrender, Kennedy opened fire against both vessels with his antique and wholly inadequate guns.
inappropriate
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The acts, implying possession in one case, may be wholly inappropriate to prove it in another.
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Quite apart from questions of sample size and representativeness, this particular aggregation is wholly inappropriate .
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Chief Inspector Davina Logan described the sentence as wholly inappropriate .
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The same terms are used to describe very different products and some terms are wholly inappropriate .
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Many of the burdensome covenants inserted in the former kind of lease will be wholly inappropriate to the latter.
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One of these is the notion of detachment between professionals and clients which is wholly inappropriate in teaching.
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For them the demand to draft or revise a long story would be wholly inappropriate .
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One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate .
independent
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It must be clearly recognised that compensation orders are otherwise wholly independent of that exercise.
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The oxygen extraction process may then become wholly independent of resupply from Earth.
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And the idiots had hooked the man's life support on to a wholly independent generator, the prison fail-safe.
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Non-executive directors are not wholly independent .
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The inquiry will be wholly independent .
new
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One has wholly new qualities involved.
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Some adjust levels of existing taxes; some involve technical or administrative questions; a few may suggest wholly new forms of taxation.
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Such an organization operates according to wholly new rules.
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In truth the idea was not a wholly new one.
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Pluto moves very fast, and often very quietly, opening a wholly new and elusive musical dimension.
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Through mounting intervention to sustain a profitable economy, capitalist states are haphazardly establishing a wholly new arena of political confrontation.
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We have so far discussed these themes as though we were constructing a wholly new kind of urban sociology.
owned
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Its ownership relationships varied from a wholly owned territory to joint ventures to a partnership.
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It decided to do this through the dock company, a wholly owned subsidiary which was incorporated on 24 March 1982.
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Consent is not required of the shareholders of any company which is a wholly owned subsidiary.
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Banque Worms, a wholly owned unit of Union des Assurances de Paris, will increase to 5 percent from 2 percent.
satisfactory
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Joan found the transition from sanctuary to Tower wholly satisfactory .
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That could indicate a feeling that the ecumenical solution is not wholly satisfactory .
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More importantly, I did not find the sections on taxonomy and evolution wholly satisfactory .
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If the appointment is not wholly satisfactory , look at your notes and try and see where you made your mistakes.
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And the Executive's recommendation is not by any means wholly satisfactory .
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No doubt the missio, with its insistence on proving bad faith, had not been a wholly satisfactory remedy.
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We may agree that this is not wholly satisfactory .
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He failed to make a wholly satisfactory career.
unacceptable
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Such a philosophy is wholly unacceptable and shows how stupid the tax was.
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This is an unscientific procedure that is widely practiced but must be condemned as wholly unacceptable .
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By the by, those conditions are wholly unacceptable to our partners and would destroy the whole purpose and form of a central bank.
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Through their wholly unacceptable behaviour, keoi mark themselves apart from humans, while reminding them of the possibility of such behaviour.
■ VERB
convince
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Despite its easy flow I was nevertheless not wholly convinced by No. 4.
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But the City was not wholly convinced .
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They had not seemed wholly convinced but had subsided with mutterings.
fail
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Are there tasks in which children partly or wholly fail to understand the language which the teacher is using?
own
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The Styrofoam plant is now wholly owned by Dow.
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In 1969, Lechmere merged with Dayton Corp., becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the giant Minneapolis-based retailer.
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A wholly owned subsidiary is one in which the parent owns 100 percent of the voting stock of the subsidiary.
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Many wholly owned subsidiaries are originally founded by the parent for some special purpose.
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Pratt &038; Lambert is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Sherwin-Williams, a paint and varnish maker.
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Monster Motorsports will remain a wholly owned subsidiary.
seem
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In the case of the twins, the id seems wholly detached from the ego.
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They seem wholly to belong to where they are.
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To pretend that the 12 can beat out a constructive, flexible, foreign policy based on majority voting seems wholly unrealistic.
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They had not seemed wholly convinced but had subsided with mutterings.
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Coming from her tight mouth, the county trilling on local lawlessness and moral decline made these cankers seem wholly benign.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Help came from a wholly unexpected source.
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She still did not wholly trust her instincts.
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The city council's proposals are wholly unacceptable.
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The commission found that the officer on duty at the time was not wholly responsible.
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The evidence we have is not wholly reliable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But despite their godlike powers, they had not wholly forgotten their origin, in the warm slime of a vanished sea.
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In Britain at least, swearing on television has become commonplace and wholly unremarkable.
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It has not been a wholly successful policy.
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That is, they involve a second and wholly different relation, a semantic or intentional relation between themselves and whatever they represent.
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The community health services then came to be financed wholly by central government.
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The oxygen extraction process may then become wholly independent of resupply from Earth.
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This is not to say that it was wholly accurate.