all and sundry
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.76 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
All; everyone.
pron
Each one.
Example Sentences
- "All and sundry are being driven into the wintry cold."
- "And decerns and declares all and sundry, who either gainsay the word of the evangel [...] to be no members of the said kirk within this realm, and true religion presently professed, so long as they keep themselves so divided from the society of Christ's body."
- "Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels."
- "From morning till night you saw her sitting on a low chair in the kitchen, surrounded by a Chinese cook and two or three native girls, giving her orders, chatting sociably with all and sundry, and tasting the savoury messes she devised."
- "Visit any Czech river during the summer, and you will find flotillas of rafters and canoeists, gleefully calling “ahoj!” to all and sundry."