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blank; leer {adj}
blank
blank; pur; rein; schier [geh.]; bar [geh.] [selten] {adj} (in reinster Form)
sheer; pure; plain; arrant [dated]
blanker Hohn
sheer/pure mockery
die reine Wahrheit
the plain truth
aus reiner Bosheit
from sheer malice
Es /ɛs/ war purer Zufall.
It was sheer/pure coincidence.
Das ist blanker Unsinn.
That is sheer/pure nonsense.
Dieses Argument ist reine Rhetorik.
This argument is pure / arrant rhetoric.
blank; schier [geh.] {adj}
sheer; stark
die schiere Anzahl möglicher Kombinationen
the sheer number of possible combinations
In seinen Augen stand blankes Entsetzen.
His eyes widened in sheer/stark horror.
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