Definition: 1. Completely. 2. To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent.
Use 'wholly' in a sentence:
1. Within a short space of time a group of complete unknowns had established a wholly original form of humour.
2. Article 85 This law applies to the use of land by Sino-foreign joint and cooperative ventures, and wholly foreign-owned enterprises.
3. James Hook, thou not wholly unheroic figure, farewell.
4. Inbreeders are plants which predominantly or wholly produce seeds from self-fertilization.
5. The application of wholly three? Dimensional sectors? Connecting processing technique.
6. Its population, large though it was, was composed wholly of boys.
7. In the next century, I will make a wholly new life for myself.
8. This article wholly analyzes issues in college teachers construction and administration.
9. Workers make their living wholly or mainly by selling their labour power.
10. Principle and Application of Wholly Digital and Nonlinear Optimal Excitation Controller.
11. His mind was wholly taken up with the question.
12. He is wholly concerned with his own grandeur.
13. A spokesman for one of the big tobacco companies called the legislation totally unreasonable and he said the process had become wholly politicized.
14. that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
15. Maintenance and Wholly Prevention Function for Enterprises' Quality System after ISO Certificate.
16. Yet the complexities that confront those who would study such materials are not wholly different from those recently surmounted by historians of criminal law in England during the same period.
17. We've grown so used to this orange haze that the original glory of an unlit night—dark enough for the planet Venus to throw shadows on Earth—is wholly beyond our experience, beyond memory almost.
18. The system electricity need to be design wholly to decrease cost and increase system reliability.
19. Our Intelligence Service was untrained, cumbersome, and almost wholly ineffectual.
20. Observers are split on whether this is a wholly good thing.
21. At the same time, people continue to treat fire as an event that needs to be wholly controlled and unleashed only out of necessity, says Professor Balch at the University of Colorado.
22. Industrial Rack Design and Analysis System Based on Wholly Parametrized Model.
23. The National Health Service was free and wholly publicly provided.
24. They ceased to trouble his thoughts almost wholly.
25. Just as he was on the point of losing himself wholly, he distinctly felt something touch him!
26. Moreover, Hunt and Lipo are convinced that the settlers were not wholly responsible for the loss of the island's trees.
27. According to these editors, however, readers are wholly to blame for the reductions.
28. Each tail piece wriggles to wholly confuse and distract an attacker.
29. This company is wholly owned by the brothers li.
30. That would be the Joker, of course, a demonic creation and the three-ring circus of one wholly inhabited by Heath Ledger.
31. The Boston-owned software company became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM.
32. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a large multinational.
33. Your report last week was unfair. It was based upon wholly unfounded and totally unjustified allegations.
34. The aims of the organization are wholly peaceful.
35. Racism is wholly unacceptable under any circumstances.
36. The criticism was wholly unjustified.
37. The main argument against the interview as a selection procedure is that it results in a wholly subjective decision.
38. Roughly one-half of the world's population, including virtually all of East and Southeast Asia also, is wholly dependent on rice to be its staple food.
39. If it is trying to upset Google, which relies almost wholly on advertising, it has chosen an indirect method: there is no guarantee that DNT by default will become the norm.
40. The government is not wholly to blame for the recession.
41. While the two are only days apart in age they seem to belong to wholly different generations.
42. In my opinion, the decision was wholly justified.
43. Unhappily the facts do not wholly bear out the theory.
44. These people are not wholly reliant on Western charity.
45. The existing law is not entirely/ wholly satisfactory.
46. Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of evolution: they "look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension".
47. Those ignorant of evolution look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension.
48. For urban areas this approach was wholly inadequate.
49. Her advice has frequently been less than wholly helpful.
