What does whole cloth mean?
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whole cloth
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word whole cloth.
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whole clothnoun
A newly made textile which has not yet been cut. Also called broad cloth.
whole clothnoun
A complete fabrication. A lie with no basis in the truth.
whole clothnoun
Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of whole cloth in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of whole cloth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of whole cloth in a Sentence
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
I would be disappointed if we don't allow states to make a decision just based on what the Roe decision was in 1973. It was… such a faulty foundation in its own judicial argument and it created out of whole cloth this viability standard, which was completely arbitrary.
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
I debated in high school: If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.
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