Synonym: all, altogether, completely, entirely, totally, whole. Similar words: holland, hollow, holler, hollowness, jolly, folly, lolly, dolly. Meaning: ['həʊlɪ] adv. to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly').
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61. He also struck me as wholly sincere and a very decent sort.
62. But this area, too, was wholly dependent on engineers for its existence.
63. In 1773 Mozart also wrote his first wholly original piano concerto.
64. The budget for equipment and investments, wholly financed by external funds, would be balanced at 10,000 million Comoros francs.
65. And yet, the idea of a Goddess, a wholly divine being, actually being born struck them as bizarre.
66. It was impossible to treat all parliamentary candidates alike without being either wholly uninformative or inordinately lengthy.
67. You can surely sympathize with this self-protective caution, even if by the nature of the case you can not wholly share it.
68. Its city bus station was sold for development and its long-distance coach station was wholly unexpectedly sold for £4 1 million.
69. His support for a 15-month blanket ban on strikes suggests that he is still not wholly aware of this fact.
70. The only man who had ever wholly captured her imagination in a lifetime of meetings and travel and ceaseless activity.
71. But not all the skills and ingenuity of law draftsmen could wholly circumvent the deviousness of ancient land law.
72. Most of our employees are wholly dependent on their employment with us for their survival.
73. District and borough councils will become wholly responsible for cleaning all roads except motorways.
74. Differences emerge in three ways: argument; competition; and conflict - which alone is considered wholly harmful.
75. The results were wholly unexpected: Mercury has small, reflective polar caps with the distinctive depolarization behavior of ice.
76. As it is, the company can not in any case be accounted for as a wholly contractual phenomenon.
77. Geertz's assertions about Balinese society emerge from the wholly male-dominated world of cockfighting.
78. The oxygen extraction process may then become wholly independent of resupply from Earth.
79. Accordingly, he was wholly dependent upon Adenauer for his position, and could present no political threat.
80. Their interpretability, however, must not be exaggerated; their meanings are not necessarily wholly predictable on first acquaintance.
81. Better still, never leave Little Puddington at all if you wish to be a wholly fulfilled and creative person.
82. And the idiots had hooked the man's life support on to a wholly independent generator, the prison fail-safe.
83. Reporting structures and planning, budgeting, and compensation systems, for example, remain wholly or significantly the same.
84. It is certainly possible that Mercury once had a molten iron core which has since partly or wholly solidified.
85. Such mental attitudes may be wholly unconscious and are difficult, if not impossible, to eliminate.
86. Howdendyke is almost wholly working-class and current policies prevent in-migration.
87. Questions of defence policy are vast, complicated, confidential, and wholly unsuited for ventilation before a jury.
88. He had avoided detection during the war, when for wholly different reasons he was murdered by the Saigon secret police.
88. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
89. In that play the lovers are wholly sensitive and communicate to perfection.
90. It decided to do this through the dock company, a wholly owned subsidiary which was incorporated on 24 March 1982.
More similar words: holland, hollow, holler, hollowness, jolly, folly, lolly, dolly, colloquially, psychologically, shilly-shally, dilly-dally, roll-on roll-off, willy-nilly, hold, hole, holy, whole, uphold, hold out, holdup, hold up, hold-up, hold on, behold, hold in, hold down, unholy, holding, as a whole.