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wholly

[hoh-lee, hohl-lee]

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adverb

entirely; totally; altogether; quite.

to the whole amount, extent, etc.

so as to comprise or involve all.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English holliche. See whole, -ly

Can be confused: holey, holy, wholly.

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The ozone decision was jarring because it was wholly unexpected.

I've tried three ways of managing a reading list, none of them wholly satisfactory.

Even a wholly technocratic government can never fully escape politics.

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The ozone decision was jarring because it was wholly unexpected.

I've tried three ways of managing a reading list, none of them wholly satisfactory.

Even a wholly technocratic government can never fully escape politics.

No single pathogen seems wholly responsible for the disease, they've found.

Wheeler was one of the first prominent physicists seriously to propose that reality might not be a wholly physical phenomenon.

Wholly non-intuitive interface and small, pokey buttons.

When any wholly uneducated individual commits some deed of savage.

Gone will be the rules you clearly understood for the academic game, and in their place will be wholly unfamiliar ones.

Hungarians seeking to buy forints had been battling with a foreign-exchange market that had almost wholly seized up.

Britain's only national museum dedicated wholly to aviation.

As for overseas production, the article doesn't mention how many brand name drugs are produced wholly are partly overseas.

Safari's new features may not be wholly original, but the result is greater than the sum of the parts.

The study also does not wholly account for the role job switching plays in meeting work-force needs.

The four biggest banks are off limits, being wholly state-owned, and are in any case insolvent.

Recently, dramatic and wholly chance discoveries have provided biographical outlines of individual men.

Mould by a charisma and wholly self centered they are actually borderline animals.

Because the communications occurred wholly intrastate, however, no federal law criminalized the conduct.

It also makes universities wholly dependant on the economic fortunes of the state and the whims of politicians for funding.

But in few beauty contests are the judges wholly objective.

It's amazing though how a word can have a particular meaning in one place and a wholly different meaning in another.

Something wholly new emerges at these higher levels of complexity.

Perhaps someday researchers will find wholly natural explanations for life and the cosmos.

Finally, at another meeting on a wholly different topic, he lashed out at his nemesis.

Other parents with working spouses may not have been wholly persuaded by his plea.

But there are still reasons to believe that theirs is not a wholly useless profession.

Others see it as a wholly legitimate military operation.

They range from the deeply religious to the wholly secular.

Instead, the studio says it will create wholly original games with a focus on exceptional storytelling.

He had not wholly found himself at his death, and it is idle to surmise what he would have done had he lived.

And nonviolently pointing out this inconvenient fact of corporate life is a wholly legitimate tactic for a social movement.

There is something to both arguments, but neither is wholly convincing.

What's more, the current mechanisms for detecting it were wholly inadequate".

To date they have been wholly uncooperative when asked.

The final game is a surprise every year, and it's usually something wholly unexpected.

At present the clerical army admits recruits wholly regardless of height.

But nowhere has a people had a wholly free choice in how they are ruled.

At the same time, they represent wholly lawful targets generally subject to attack with a minimal risk of collateral damage.

The machines made by him are wholly of metal and are constructed in the best possible manner.

Nonetheless, only some of all that fiction can be called wholly naturalistic.

The claim that this money is wholly wasted may not be entirely fair, though.

If my city were a celebrity it'd be wholly underappreciated.

Even wholly absent fingerprints, however, don't eliminate all identifying marks whatsoever.

Mineola's water system is run by the village government but is financed wholly by water bill payments, not general village taxes.

To me, this a seems wholly unconvincing explanation.

But with the current buzz wholly the result of unauthorized peer-to-peer activity, show creators are a bit unsure how to proceed.

His long and brilliantly, successful career has been wholly confined to railway affairs.

Wholly separate admissions criteria are applied to recruits in the revenue sports.

No single model has emerged from the turmoil either wholly vindicated or entirely discredited.

It is still unclear whether electronic networks have wholly salutary effects on neural networks.

Burke's system is not wholly constructed of nanomaterials.

It is a failing from which few men, and still fewer women, are wholly exempt.

Everyone's opinion is not equal, and some people's opinions are so deficient as to be wholly without merit.

The gaming tables may be busy again, but the flashy new venues have not been wholly successful.

All of which is patently ridiculous and wholly wonderful.

Yet the result is not wholly bad: in fact, as an elementary history the book is good.

Their compensation system was wholly based upon the generation of numbers and not quality students.

Setting up wholly new schools requires planning permission from local authorities, which is hard to gain.

Thinks maybe the earth is warming but maybe the cause can be wholly or partially not due to mans activities.

It is of recent date and was acquired almost wholly by means.

They were wholly supportive throughout the rest of my eduction.

Marshall was wholly discredited as making up interviews and his research was debunked.

The conversation would have been wholly different if any man were present.

Nor is it clear that a willingness to spend on media-playing devices is a wholly good sign.

There is a danger if it becomes wholly official too soon.

Arguments for protectionism are based on fears that are wholly at odds with the evidence.

But what happens next might not depend wholly on what consumers do with the cash in their wallets.

The conversions from realism to idealism are not wholly convincing.

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wholly (ˈhəʊllɪ)

—*adv*
1.	completely, totally, or entirely
2.	without exception; exclusively

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