nothing if not

idiom

: to an extreme degree : very
He is nothing if not persistent.

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Considered a husband-stealing tramp in Dani’s circle, Hayley is nothing if not confident. Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024 Campaigns are nothing if not aggressive, often-desperate content farms hoping to get attention. Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024 Kubrick was nothing if not exacting as a filmmaker and his one-and-only genre effort manipulates that reputation to obsession-worthy effect. Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024 But the band, formed in Miami in 1989, is nothing if not resilient. Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for nothing if not 

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“Nothing if not.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nothing%20if%20not. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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