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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91. If finally I become wholly submerged in this solipsism there could be no other rational ethic for me than egoism.
92. Some adjust levels of existing taxes; some involve technical or administrative questions; a few may suggest wholly new forms of taxation.
93. If it had been alive, it would have felt excitement, but such an emotion was wholly beyond its powers.
94. Ease of repair and ease of disposal were almost wholly neglected.
95. Genes from wholly unrelated species are being swapped and recombined, creating new entities that would never have evolved on their own.
96. Liberal-democracy is found only in countries whose economic system is wholly or predominantly that of capitalist enterprise.
97. No doubt the missio, with its insistence on proving bad faith, had not been a wholly satisfactory remedy.
98. The producer of a defective product is liable for damage resulting wholly or partly from that defect.
99. The public order essence of the offence has been wholly lost, and affray has become a form of aggravated assault.
100. The most energetic of them may form themselves into pressure-groups of a not wholly child-centred kind.
101. Coming from her tight mouth, the county trilling on local lawlessness and moral decline made these cankers seem wholly benign.
102. The circle then disappears wholly, and a glowing red ring of light within marks out the circle of the portal.
103. Through mounting intervention to sustain a profitable economy, capitalist states are haphazardly establishing a wholly new arena of political confrontation.
104. We are not looking for a single gene which is wholly responsible for a disorder or a behavioural predisposition.
105. For some time, I wondered whether this might explain an inability to find the Oyster Band wholly digestible.
106. It evoked a huge and apparently permanent armament industry, now wholly dependent... on government contracts.
107. Until recently, their quest for the next best seller drug relied wholly on laborious physical trial and error.
108. It seems that such facts are wholly irrelevant, at least in the standard case of discovery by a party to the action.
109. In alternate weeks the auction is wholly devoted to domestic buyers or to foreign buyers.
110. Such accounts dismiss any notion of reproduction and treat consumption as wholly, as opposed to relatively, autonomous.
111. Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty, it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training.
112. The procedure is very demanding in terms of time and trouble for the inspectors who enter wholly into the spirit of what is required.
113. These are serious charges that are wholly unfounded and completely false.
114. But it is debatable whether one can wholly understand it from the inside.
115. The fog bank was unattainable and rather than surrender, Kennedy opened fire against both vessels with his antique and wholly inadequate guns.
116. Originally the yarn for the cloth was hand-spun from wool by the crofters of Lewis and was wholly produced in the Isle.
117. A birthday is a movable feast as the round of years is wholly unrelated to the seasons.
118. She was flattered by their attention and affection, but it was wholly innocuous.
118. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
119. Changes in the level of interest rates charged on borrowing, therefore, depend almost wholly upon movements in the base rate.
120. But they are still highly circumscribed in their authority, and wholly dependent upon their salaried employment.
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.