double-dyed adjective
- confirmed; inveteratea double-dyed villain
- dyed twice
Examples from the Web for double-dyed Historical Examples of double-dyed
I don’t care who he is, I say he is a double-dyed and most intolerable villain!’
Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens
“I’ll expose you to-day, you—you double-dyed traitor,” stammered Thacker.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)
Various
There are fools, and there are double-dyed fools, and that man is the chief of them.
Bunyan Characters – Third Series
Alexander Whyte
Now he shall be lashed from the door, the double-dyed scoundrel!
Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
His case looks black now—I’ll make it of a double-dyed darkness.
L. T. Meade