veriest
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Adjective[edit]
veriest
- superlative form of very: most very
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Albatross”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 264:
- Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.
- 1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion), page 638, column 1:
- If it had come to crawling before Mr Kurtz, he crawled as much as the veriest savage of them all.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 81:
- He wheeled away down the narrow sandy street like the veriest derelict.
- 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 4, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
- One commentator observed that “to connect the dinosaurs, creatures of interest to but the veriest dullards, with a spectacular extraterrestrial event” seemed “like one of those plots a clever publisher might concoct to guarantee sales.”
Translations[edit]
truest, most